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.