Title Buddhist scriptures as literature : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory / Ralph Flores

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 223 pages) Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka -- Criticism, interpretation, etc Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka fast Subject Buddhist literature -- History and criticism Tripiṭaka as literature. Buddhism and literature. RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General. Buddhism and literature Buddhist literature Tripiṭaka as literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781435632127 1435632125 0791478831 9780791478837

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