Ohnuma, Reiko <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>1. The gift-of-the-body genre --<br/>2. Conventions of plot --<br/>3. Conventions of rhetoric --<br/>4. Dana : the Buddhist discourse on giving --<br/>5. A flexible gift --<br/>6. Bodies ordinary and ideal --<br/>7. Kingship, sacrifice, offering, and death : some other interpretive contexts. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231137089 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sacrifice in literature<br/>Gautama Buddha<br/>Pre-existence
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.54  / OHN/