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Buddhist scriptures as literature : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory

eBook, English, ©2008
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (vii, 223 pages)
9781435632127, 9780791478837, 1435632125, 0791478831
212086388
Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts
A prince transformed: the Nikāyas, the Nidānakathā, Aśvaghoşa's Acts of the Buddha
The Buddha awakening: the Nikāyas
Winning conversions: the Nikāyas
Passing on: the Nikāyas
Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada
Joyous negations: the Heart sutra
Masters of emptiness: The gateless barrier and Zen folktales
Extreme giving: The vessantara jātaka and Shantideva's A guide to the bodhisattva way of life
Final emergency reading: The Tibetan book of the dead
Epilogue: Images in the reader
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