Readings of the Vessantara Jataka
The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted in texts, sermons, rituals, and art throughout South and Southeast Asia and beyond. This anthology features well-respected anthropologists, textual scholars in religious and Buddhist studies, and art historians, who engage in sophisticated readings of the text and its ethics of giving, understanding of attachment and nonattachment, depiction of the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-231-54100-8
- EAN: 9780231541008
- Produktnummer: 22650449
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 19'207 KB
- Abbildungen: 30 color illustrations
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Edited by Steven Collins
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