TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ohnuma, Reiko
TI  - Head, eyes flesh and blood: giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature
SN  - 9780231137089
U1  - 294.54 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Sacrifice in literature
KW  - Gautama Buddha
KW  - Pre-existence
N1  - 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
ER  -