Head, eyes, flesh, blood giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature
Reiko Ohnuma
- 1st
- New york: Columbia University Press, 2007.
- 372 p.
Illustrations 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