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Cover illustration: The Buddha Footprints stone (Bussokuseki) (left), and Poems about Buddha’s Footprints (Bussokuseki-no uta) stele (right). Both images are courtesy of the Yakushiji temple.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Vovin, Alexander, translator author of commentary.
Title: The footprints of the Buddha : the text and the language / byAlexander Vovin.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Languages of Asiaseries, 2452-2961 ; volume 25 | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021009621 (print) | LCCN 2021009622 (ebook) | ISBN9789004449770 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004449848 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Buddhist poetry, Japanese–Translations into English |Buddhist poetry, Japanese. | Japanese poetry–To 794–Translations intoEnglish. | Japanese poetry–To 794. | Japanese poetry–To 794–Historyand criticism. | Buddhist inscriptions–Japan–Nara-shi. | Inscriptions,Japanese–Japan–Nara-shi. | Inscriptions,Japanese–Japan–Nara-shi–Translations into English. | Buddhist poetry,Chinese. | Chinese poetry–Tang dynasty, 618-907–Translations intoEnglish. | Chinese poetry–Tang dynasty, 618-907. | Inscriptions,Chinese–Japan–Nara-shi. | Inscriptions,Chinese–Japan–Nara-shi–Translations into English. | Yakushiji(Nara-shi, Japan)
Classification: LCC PL757.5.B8 F66 2021 (print) | LCC PL757.5.B8 (ebook)| DDC 895.61–dc23
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ISSN 2452-2961
ISBN 978-90-04-44977-0 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-44984-8 (e-book)
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