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Reading the Mahavamsa : the Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History.
Vam?sa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past....
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La Vergne :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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| 520 | |a Vam?sa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. The fifth-century Pali text Mahavamsa is a particularly effective example, using metaphor and other rhetorical devices to ethically transform readers, to stimulate and then to calm them. Reading the Mahavamsa advocates a new, literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (t. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Instructions, Admonitions, and Aspirations in Vamsa Proems -- 2. Relocating the Light -- 3. Nagas, Transfigured Figures Inside the Text, Ruminative Triggers Outside -- 4. Nagas and Relics -- 5. Historicizing (in) the Pali Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Buddhist literature, Pali |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Littérature bouddhique palie |x Histoire et critique. | |
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