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Zen and Material Culture by Pamela D. Winfield; Steven Heine is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Zen and Material Culture about?
The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention to the vast range of "stuff" in Zen by highlighting the material abundance and iconic range of the Soto, Rinzai, and Obaku sects in Japan. Chapters on beads, bowls, buildings, staffs, statues, rags, robes, and even retail commodities in America all shed new light on overlooked items of lay and monastic practice in both historical
Who reads Zen and Material Culture?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Pamela D. Winfield; Steven Heine
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190469313
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Buddhism, Art, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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