Head, eyes, flesh, and blood : giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature /

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Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ohnuma, Reiko
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Sujets:
Gautama Buddha > Pre-existence.
Gautama Buddha.
Buddha.
Buddhist literature > India > Themes, motives.
Sacrifice in literature.
Littérature bouddhique > Inde > Thèmes, motifs.
Sacrifice dans la littérature.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Pre-existence.
Präexistenz
Buddhistische Literatur
India.
Indien
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Illustrations; Tables; Conventions Used in this Book; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Gift-of-the-Body Genre; II. Conventions of Plot; III. Conventions of Rhetoric; IV. DANA: The Buddhist Discourse on Giving; V.A Flexible Gift; VI. Bodies Ordinary and Ideal; VII. Kingship, Sacrifice, Offering, and Death; Conclusions; Appendix: A Corpus of Gift-of-the-Body Jatakas; Notes; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index.

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