LEADER 04442nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910451697703321 005 20210527030251.0 010 $a0-231-51028-4 024 7 $a10.7312/ohnu13708 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474427 035 $a(EBL)908475 035 $a(OCoLC)818856022 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000169292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12023565 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000169292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10203282 035 $a(PQKB)10765484 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908475 035 $a(DE-B1597)459182 035 $a(OCoLC)1024008289 035 $a(OCoLC)1029816981 035 $a(OCoLC)1032690533 035 $a(OCoLC)1037981710 035 $a(OCoLC)1041990676 035 $a(OCoLC)1046604262 035 $a(OCoLC)1046997871 035 $a(OCoLC)1049611121 035 $a(OCoLC)1054876045 035 $a(OCoLC)979753677 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231510288 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908475 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183616 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL675148 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474427 100 $a20060614d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHead, eyes, flesh, and blood$b[electronic resource] $egiving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature /$fReiko Ohnuma 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Michigan). 311 0 $a1-322-43866-8 311 0 $a0-231-13708-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-358) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tTables --$tConventions Used in This Book --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tI. The Gift-of-the-Body Genre --$tII. Conventions of Plot --$tIII. Conventions of Rhetoric --$tIV. D?na: The Buddhist Discourse on Giving --$tV. A Flexible Gift --$tVI. Bodies Ordinary and Ideal --$tVII. Kingship, Sacrifice, Offering, and Death: Some Other Interpretive Contexts --$tConclusions --$tAppendix: A Corpus of Gift-of-the-Body J?taka --$tNotes --$tBibliography of Works Cited --$tIndex 330 $aHead, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century BCE and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. Whether he takes the form of king, prince, ascetic, elephant, hare, serpent, or god, the bodhisattva repeatedly gives his body or parts of his flesh to others. He leaps into fires, drowns himself in the ocean, rips out his tusks, gouges out his eyes, and lets mosquitoes drink from his blood, always out of selflessness and compassion and to achieve the highest state of Buddhahood. Ohnuma places these stories into a discrete subgenre of South Asian Buddhist literature and approaches them like case studies, analyzing their plots, characterizations, and rhetoric. She then relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice to major conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions, such as the categories of the gift, the body (both ordinary and extraordinary), kingship, sacrifice, ritual offering, and death. Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood reveals a very sophisticated and influential perception of the body in South Asian Buddhist literature and highlights the way in which these stories have provided an important cultural resource for Buddhists. Combined with her rich and careful translations of classic texts, Ohnuma introduces a whole new understanding of a vital concept in Buddhists studies. 606 $aBuddhist literature$zIndia$xThemes, motives 606 $aSacrifice in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBuddhist literature$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aSacrifice in literature. 676 $a294.3/42 700 $aOhnuma$b Reiko$01056795 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451697703321 996 $aHead, eyes, flesh, and blood$92491410 997 $aUNINA