| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 literature written between the third century B.C.E. and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. Whether he takes the form of king, prince, ascetic, elephant, hare, serpent, or god, th |
| Notes |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-358) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Gautama Buddha -- Pre-existence.
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| SUBJECT |
Gautama Buddha fast |
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Buddha. swd |
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Buddhist literature -- India -- Themes, motives
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Sacrifice in literature.
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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Pre-existence
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Sacrifice in literature
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Präexistenz
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Buddhistische Literatur
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India
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Indien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006019767 |
| ISBN |
9780231510288 |
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0231510284 |
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