02374oam 2200565Ia 450 991077824940332120231218172428.00-7914-7883-11-4356-3212-5(CKB)1000000000484366(OCoLC)212086388(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575978(SSID)ssj0000115436(PQKBManifestationID)11139934(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115436(PQKBWorkID)10009283(PQKB)10288808(MiAaPQ)EBC3407551(Au-PeEL)EBL3407551(CaPaEBR)ebr10575978(OCoLC)923406381(EXLCZ)99100000000048436620070419d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBuddhist scriptures as literature sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory /Ralph FloresAlbany :State University of New York Press,2008.1 online resource (233 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-7339-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.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.Buddhist literatureHistory and criticismTripiṭaka as literatureBuddhism and literatureBuddhist literatureHistory and criticism.Tripiṭaka as literature.Buddhism and literature.294.3/8Flores Ralph465326MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778249403321Buddhist scriptures as literature3860286UNINA