Head, eyes flesh and blood: giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature/
Ohnuma, Reiko
Head, eyes flesh and blood: giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature/ Reiko Ohnuma - New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. - xvii, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780231137089
Sacrifice in literature
Gautama Buddha
Pre-existence
294.54 / OHN/
Head, eyes flesh and blood: giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature/ Reiko Ohnuma - New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. - xvii, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780231137089
Sacrifice in literature
Gautama Buddha
Pre-existence
294.54 / OHN/