TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ohnuma, Reiko
TI  - Head, eyes, flesh, blood giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature
SN  - 9780231137089
U1  - 294.342 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New york
PB  - Columbia University Press
N1  - 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
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