Once a Peacock, Once an Actress
Twenty-Four Lives of the Bodhisattva from Haribhatta's "Jatakamala"
Peter Khoroche's translation of Arya Sura's Jatakamala (ca. fourth century) has sold more than fifteen-hundred copies in each of its editions. We now have a new translation of the Jatakamala by Haribhatta, a later contemporary of Arya Sura's. Like the earlier volume, this one contains rare examples of the earliest extant writings from Sanskrit's classical period. To date, six of the thirty-four stories from the work are still lost to time, but even in its truncated form, the tales, in Khoroche's splendid, fluid renderings, amply illustrate the Buddha's single-minded devotion to the good of all creatures in each of his incarnations. Here we ha…
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Weitere Autoren: Khoroche, Peter (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-226-48596-6
- EAN: 9780226485966
- Produktnummer: 22371434
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.5 cm 312 g
- Gewicht: 312
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