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Of Beggars and Buddhas : The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand /
The 547 Buddhist jatakas, or verse parables, recount the Buddha's lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate and most famous incarnation, he appears as the Prince Vessantara, perfecting the virtue of generosity by giving away all his possessions, his wife, and his children to the beggar...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |