Buddhist scriptures as literature : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory
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Albany
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State University of New York Press
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 207-218( and index
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Ralph Flores
CONTENTS NOTE
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Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts -- A prince transformed: the Nikayas, the Nidanakatha, Asvaghosa's Acts of the Buddha -- The Buddha awakening: the Nikayas -- Winning conversions: the Nikayas -- Passing on: the Nikayas -- Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada -- Joyous negations: the Heart sutra -- Masters of emptiness: The gateless barrier and Zen folktales -- Extreme giving: The vessantara jataka 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