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Readings of the Vessantara Jātaka /
The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Columbia readings of Buddhist literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction, dramatis personae, and chapters in the Vessantara Jātaka / Steven Collins
- Readers in the maze: modern debates about the Vessantara story in Thailand / Louis Gabaude
- Emotions and narrative: excessive giving and ethical ambivalence in the Lao Vessantara Jātaka / Patrice Ladwig
- Blissfully Buddhist and betrothed: marriage in the Vessantara Jātaka and other South and Southeast Asian Buddhist narratives / Justin Thomas McDaniel
- Jūjaka as trickster: the comedic monks of northern Thailand / Katherine A. Bowie
- Narration in the Vessantara painted scrolls of northeast Thailand and Laos / Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate
- A man for all seasons: three Vessantaras in premodern Myanmar / Lilian Handlin
- Vessantara opts out: Newar versions of the tale of the generous prince / Christoph Emmrich.