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Head, eyes, flesh, and blood [[electronic resource] ] : giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature / / Reiko Ohnuma
| Head, eyes, flesh, and blood [[electronic resource] ] : giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature / / Reiko Ohnuma |
| Autore | Ohnuma Reiko |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Disciplina | 294.3/42 |
| Soggetto topico |
Buddhist literature - India - Themes, motives
Sacrifice in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-231-51028-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Gift-of-the-Body Genre -- II. Conventions of Plot -- III. Conventions of Rhetoric -- IV. Dāna: The Buddhist Discourse on Giving -- V. A Flexible Gift -- VI. Bodies Ordinary and Ideal -- VII. Kingship, Sacrifice, Offering, and Death: Some Other Interpretive Contexts -- Conclusions -- Appendix: A Corpus of Gift-of-the-Body Jātaka -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451697703321 |
Ohnuma Reiko
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| New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Head, eyes, flesh, and blood : giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature / / Reiko Ohnuma
| Head, eyes, flesh, and blood : giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature / / Reiko Ohnuma |
| Autore | Ohnuma Reiko |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 294.3/42 |
| Soggetto topico |
Buddhist literature - India - Themes, motives
Sacrifice in literature |
| ISBN | 0-231-51028-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Gift-of-the-Body Genre -- II. Conventions of Plot -- III. Conventions of Rhetoric -- IV. Dāna: The Buddhist Discourse on Giving -- V. A Flexible Gift -- VI. Bodies Ordinary and Ideal -- VII. Kingship, Sacrifice, Offering, and Death: Some Other Interpretive Contexts -- Conclusions -- Appendix: A Corpus of Gift-of-the-Body Jātaka -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777701303321 |
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Ohnuma Reiko
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| New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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