Head, eyes flesh and blood: giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature/ Reiko Ohnuma
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TextPublication details: New York: Columbia University Press, 2007Description: xvii, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780231137089Subject(s): Sacrifice in literature | Gautama Buddha | Pre-existenceDDC classification: 294.54
Contents:
1. The gift-of-the-body genre --
2. Conventions of plot --
3. Conventions of rhetoric --
4. Dana : the Buddhist discourse on giving --
5. A flexible gift --
6. Bodies ordinary and ideal --
7. Kingship, sacrifice, offering, and death : some other interpretive contexts.
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1. The gift-of-the-body genre --
2. Conventions of plot --
3. Conventions of rhetoric --
4. Dana : the Buddhist discourse on giving --
5. A flexible gift --
6. Bodies ordinary and ideal --
7. Kingship, sacrifice, offering, and death : some other interpretive contexts.
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