Buddhist scriptures as literature : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts
- A prince transformed: the Nikāyas, the Nidānakathā, Aśvaghoşa's Acts of the Buddha
- The Buddha awakening: the Nikāyas
- Winning conversions: the Nikāyas
- Passing on: the Nikāyas
- Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada
- Joyous negations: the Heart sutra
- Masters of emptiness: The gateless barrier and Zen folktales
- Extreme giving: The vessantara jātaka and Shantideva's A guide to the bodhisattva way of life
- Final emergency reading: The Tibetan book of the dead
- Epilogue: Images in the reader.