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Head, Eyes, Flesh, Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature
Reiko Ohnuma
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Description for Head, Eyes, Flesh, Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature
Hardback. A study of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. This book argues that this theme has had an impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. It relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice to various conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions. Num Pages: 392 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 676.
Head, 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 ... Read more
Head, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231137089
SKU
V9780231137089
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About Reiko Ohnuma
Reiko Ohnuma is associate professor of religion at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on premodern South Asian Buddhist literature, especially narrative literature. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two children.
Reviews for Head, Eyes, Flesh, Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature
[This book] allows us to... learn a great deal about the cultural world of Indian Buddhism.
Benjamin Bogin Buddhadharma Highly recommended. CHOICE [Ohnuma's] study itself is a generous gift to scholars of Buddhism and/or the body.
Shubha Pathak Religious Studies Review
Benjamin Bogin Buddhadharma Highly recommended. CHOICE [Ohnuma's] study itself is a generous gift to scholars of Buddhism and/or the body.
Shubha Pathak Religious Studies Review