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082 _a294.54
_bOHN/
100 _aOhnuma, Reiko
245 0 _aHead, eyes flesh and blood: giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature/
_cReiko Ohnuma
260 _aNew York:
_bColumbia University Press,
_c2007.
300 _axvii, 372 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _a1. 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.
650 _aSacrifice in literature
650 _aGautama Buddha
650 _aPre-existence
942 _cWB16