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100 _aOhnuma, Reiko
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245 0 _aHead, eyes, flesh, blood giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature
_c Reiko Ohnuma
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260 _aNew york:
_bColumbia University Press,
_c2007.
300 _a372 p.
505 _aIllustrations 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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