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Head, eyes, flesh, blood giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature Reiko Ohnuma

By: Ohnuma, Reiko Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New york: Columbia University Press, 2007Edition: 1stDescription: 372 pISBN: 9780231137089DDC classification: 294.342

Contents:

Illustrations Tables Conventions Used in This Book AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 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 Conclusions Appendix: A Corpus of Gift-of-the-Body Jatakas Notes Bibliography of Works CitedIndex

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Illustrations
Tables
Conventions Used in This Book
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
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
Conclusions
Appendix: A Corpus of Gift-of-the-Body Jatakas
Notes
Bibliography of Works CitedIndex

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