The Footprints of the Buddha: The Text and the Language (Languages of Asia, Band 25) - Hardcover

Vovin, Alexander

 
9789004449770: The Footprints of the Buddha: The Text and the Language (Languages of Asia, Band 25)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004449779 ISBN 13: 9789004449770
Verlag: Brill, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

"The echo of the stone/ where I carved the [Buddha's] honorable footprints/ reaches the Heaven, [...]".
This book presents the transcription, translation, and analysis of Chinese (753 AD) and Japanese inscriptions (end of the 8th century AD) found on two stones now in the possession of the Yakushiji temple in Nara. All these inscriptions praise the footprints of Buddha, and more exactly their carvings in the stone. The language of the Japanese inscription, which consists of twenty-one poems, reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing system shows a quite unique trait, being practically monophonic. The book is richly illustrated by photos of the temple and of the inscriptions.

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Alexander Vovin, Ph.D. (1987), Saint Petersburg State University, is currently Directeur d'études at EHESS/CRLAO, Paris. He has published extensively on East and Inner Asia historical linguistics and philology. Among his major, most recent works are A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese, vol. 1-2 (Global Oriental 2005, 2009, second edition Brill 2020), and a multivolume edition and translation of the Man'yōshū, the first and the largest Japanese poetical anthology (Global Oriental/Brill, 2009-).

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Verlag
Brill
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004449779
ISBN 13 
9789004449770
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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