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PROF Lucia Dolce's Outputs (11)

A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan (2023)
Journal Article
Dolce, L. (in press). A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan. Ars orientalis, 52, 40-74. https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.3987

This study considers how printed scriptures were repurposed in medieval Japan through manuscript interventions. My starting point is the so-called Chū Hokekyō (Annotated Lotus Sutra), a copy of the Lotus Sutra probably printed in the Nara area and ow... Read More about A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan.

A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin (2022)
Journal Article
Dolce, L. A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin. Studies in Chinese Religions, 8(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2021.2015139

The Yuqi jing [Sūtra of the Yogin] is often listed as one of the most important scriptures of Tantric Buddhism in East Asia, but its content and contribution to the esoteric system have so far been little understood. Traditionally regarded as a trans... Read More about A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin.