Recently published titles from UC Press http://www.ucpress.edu/subject.php?sc=relmaj <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273863"><img src="http://www.ucpress.edu/img/covers/80/12116.80.jpg" alt="Cover Image" /></a></td><td valign="top">In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book manuscript should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners....<br /><a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/cart/cart_add.php?isbn=9780520273863">Buy Now</a></td></tr></table><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ucpress/religion?a=1v3406KxhfY:JeSHF5y-Quc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ucpress/religion?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ucpress/religion?a=1v3406KxhfY:JeSHF5y-Quc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ucpress/religion?i=1v3406KxhfY:JeSHF5y-Quc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ucpress/religion?a=1v3406KxhfY:JeSHF5y-Quc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ucpress/religion?i=1v3406KxhfY:JeSHF5y-Quc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ucpress/religion/~4/1v3406KxhfY" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ucpress/religion/~3/1v3406KxhfY/book.php http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273863 http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273863