1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778249403321

Autore

Flores Ralph

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-7914-7883-1

1-4356-3212-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Disciplina

294.3/8

Soggetti

Buddhist literature - History and criticism

Tripiṭaka as literature

Buddhism and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694517403321

Titolo

Annual report

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Arlington, Va., : Committee for Purchase from People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled, -[2003]

Descrizione fisica

volumes : digital, PDF file

Disciplina

362.4

Soggetti

People with disabilities - Employment - United States

People with disabilities - Employment

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico