Buddhist scriptures as literature : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory / / Ralph Flores
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| Autore: |
Flores Ralph
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| Titolo: |
Buddhist scriptures as literature : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory / / Ralph Flores
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 294.3/8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Buddhist literature - History and criticism |
| Tripiṭaka as literature | |
| Buddhism and literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Buddhist scriptures as literature |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-7883-1 |
| 1-4356-3212-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778249403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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