Countless sands: medieval buddhists and their environments
Éditeur :
University of Hawai'i Press
ISBN :
9780824895730
Date de publication :
31 déc. 2024
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Presents engaging analyses of the diverse relationships between Buddhism and the environment that existed in medieval Asia. As the chapters collectively demonstrate, there was no singular, consistently "Buddhist" understanding of the natural world, but innumerable, varied engagements preserved in discrete texts, images, and artifacts.