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Sacred biography in the Buddhist traditions of South and South-East Asia/ edited by Juliane Schober

Contributor(s): Schober, Juliane, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Honolulu: University of Hawai Press, 1997Description: xi, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780824816995Subject(s): Buddhist saints--Biography | Buddhist hagiography | Gautama BuddhaDDC classification: 294.36

Contents:

Trajectories in Buddhist sacred biography / Juliane Schober -- pt. 1. Buddha biography in textual and visual narratives: Rebirth traditions and the lineages of Gotama: a study in Theravāda Buddhology / Frank E. Reynolds. The biographical imperative in Theravāda Buddhism / Mark R. Woodward. Narrative as icon: the jātaka stories in ancient Indian and Southeast Asian architecture / Robert L. Brown -- pt. 2. Extensions of the Buddha biography in texts: A family quest: the Buddha, Yaśodharā, and Rāhula in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya / John S. Strong. Nāgārjuna's longevity / Reginald A. Ray. Stūpa, story, and empire: constructions of the Buddha biography in early post-Aśokan India / Jonathan S. Walters -- pt. 3. The jātakas and biographies of kings: Painting the "great life" / Forrest McGill. From prose to poetry: the literary development of Samuttakote / Thomas John Hudak. "Rationality" in the biography of a Buddhist king: Mongkut, King of Siam (r. 1851-1868) / Paul Christopher Johnson -- pt. 4. The biographical genre in local Buddhist cults and practice: In the presence of the Buddha: ritual veneration of the Burmese Mahāmuni image / Juliane Schober. The textualization of a monastic tradition: forest monks, lineage, and the biographical process in Thailand / James L. Taylor. The biography of modern Burmese Buddhist meditation Master U Ba Khin: life before the cradle and past the grave / Gustaaf Houtman.

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Trajectories in Buddhist sacred biography / Juliane Schober --
pt. 1. Buddha biography in textual and visual narratives: Rebirth traditions and the lineages of Gotama: a study in Theravāda Buddhology / Frank E. Reynolds. The biographical imperative in Theravāda Buddhism / Mark R. Woodward. Narrative as icon: the jātaka stories in ancient Indian and Southeast Asian architecture / Robert L. Brown --
pt. 2. Extensions of the Buddha biography in texts: A family quest: the Buddha, Yaśodharā, and Rāhula in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya / John S. Strong. Nāgārjuna's longevity / Reginald A. Ray. Stūpa, story, and empire: constructions of the Buddha biography in early post-Aśokan India / Jonathan S. Walters --
pt. 3. The jātakas and biographies of kings: Painting the "great life" / Forrest McGill. From prose to poetry: the literary development of Samuttakote / Thomas John Hudak. "Rationality" in the biography of a Buddhist king: Mongkut, King of Siam (r. 1851-1868) / Paul Christopher Johnson --
pt. 4. The biographical genre in local Buddhist cults and practice: In the presence of the Buddha: ritual veneration of the Burmese Mahāmuni image / Juliane Schober. The textualization of a monastic tradition: forest monks, lineage, and the biographical process in Thailand / James L. Taylor. The biography of modern Burmese Buddhist meditation Master U Ba Khin: life before the cradle and past the grave / Gustaaf Houtman.

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