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1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-358) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gautama Buddha -- Pre-existence.
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Gautama Buddha. |
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Pre-existence. |
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Gautama Buddha. |
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Buddhist literature -- India -- Themes, motives.
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Buddhist literature. |
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India. |
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Themes, motives. |
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Sacrifice in literature.
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Sacrifice in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ohnuma, Reiko. Head, eyes, flesh, and blood. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007 0231137087 9780231137089 (DLC) 2006019767 (OCoLC)70129161 |
| ISBN |
9780231510288 (electronic book) |
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0231510284 (electronic book) |
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0231137087 |
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9780231137089 |
| Music No. |
EB00639469 Recorded Books |
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