Charlotte D. Eubanks is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature , Japanese, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

"An ambitious and largely successful project... [This book] should fruitfully provoke scholars studying any culture." -- Kevin Gray Carr, University of Michigan. Journal Of Religion "Eubanks is a terrific writer ... Articulate, well-argued, and theoretically sophisticated." -- William E. Deal Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• List of Illustrations Note on Sutras Note on Setsuwa List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Cult of the Book and the Culture of Text 1. The Ontology of Sutras 2. Locating Setsuwa in Performance 3. Decomposing Bodies, Composing Texts 4. Textual Transubstantiation and the Place of Memory Conclusion: On Circumambulatory Reading Glossary Works Cited Index

Charlotte D. Eubanks is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature , Japanese, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

"An ambitious and largely successful project... [This book] should fruitfully provoke scholars studying any culture." -- Kevin Gray Carr, University of Michigan. Journal Of Religion "Eubanks is a terrific writer ... Articulate, well-argued, and theoretically sophisticated." -- William E. Deal Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• List of Illustrations Note on Sutras Note on Setsuwa List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Cult of the Book and the Culture of Text 1. The Ontology of Sutras 2. Locating Setsuwa in Performance 3. Decomposing Bodies, Composing Texts 4. Textual Transubstantiation and the Place of Memory Conclusion: On Circumambulatory Reading Glossary Works Cited Index

Charlotte D. Eubanks is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature , Japanese, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

"An ambitious and largely successful project... [This book] should fruitfully provoke scholars studying any culture." -- Kevin Gray Carr, University of Michigan. Journal Of Religion "Eubanks is a terrific writer ... Articulate, well-argued, and theoretically sophisticated." -- William E. Deal Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• List of Illustrations Note on Sutras Note on Setsuwa List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Cult of the Book and the Culture of Text 1. The Ontology of Sutras 2. Locating Setsuwa in Performance 3. Decomposing Bodies, Composing Texts 4. Textual Transubstantiation and the Place of Memory Conclusion: On Circumambulatory Reading Glossary Works Cited Index