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Head, eyes, flesh, and blood : giving away the body in Indian Buddhist literature
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ISBN: 0231137087 9780231137089 0231510284 9780231510288 1322438668 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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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 to others. He leaps into fires, drowns himself in the ocean, rips out his tusks, gouges out his eyes, and lets mosquitoes drink from his blood, always out of selflessness and compassion and to achieve the highest state of Buddhahood. Ohnuma places these stories into a discrete subgenre of South Asian Buddhist literature and approaches them like case studies, analyzing their plots, characterizations, and rhetoric. She then relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice to major conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions, such as the categories of the gift, the body (both ordinary and extraordinary), kingship, sacrifice, ritual offering, and death. Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood reveals a very sophisticated and influential perception of the body in South Asian Buddhist literature and highlights the way in which these stories have provided an important cultural resource for Buddhists. Combined with her rich and careful translations of classic texts, Ohnuma introduces a whole new understanding of a vital concept in Buddhists studies.


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Development and transformation of art of the Buddha's life story : along the silk road.
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ISBN: 4916071271 Year: 1997 Publisher: Nara Research Center for Silk roadology

The living Buddha : an interpretive biography.
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ISBN: 0834801175 9780834801172 Year: 1976 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Weatherhill


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The Buddha and his dhamma : a critical edition
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ISBN: 9780199081233 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'The Buddha and his Dhamma' presents B.R. Ambedkar's review and analysis of the vast Buddhist canon and literature. This is the first critical edition of the book published posthumously in 1957. Besides a new introduction, it includes footnotes and annotations which explain missing references and passages in the original text.

Embodying the Dharma : Buddhist relic veneration in Asia
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ISBN: 0791484408 1423739140 9781423739142 9780791484401 9780791462171 079146217X Year: 2004 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : ©2004 State University of New York Press,

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Embodying the Dharma explores the centrality of relic veneration in Asian Buddhist cultures. Long disregarded by Western scholars as a superstitious practice reflecting the popularization of "original" Buddhism, relic veneration has emerged as a topic of vital interest in the last two decades with the increased attention to Buddhist ritual practice and material culture. This volume includes studies of relic traditions in India, Japan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, as well as broader comparative analyses, including comparisons of Buddhist and Christian relic veneration.

Early Buddhist narrative art
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ISBN: 1461740274 9781461740278 0761816704 9780761816706 0761816712 9780761816713 Year: 2000 Publisher: Lanham, Md. University Press of America


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The spirit of the Buddha
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ISBN: 1280060840 9786613519825 0300175000 9780300175004 9780300164077 0300164076 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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In this slim, enlightening volume, internationally recognized Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor presents the basic tenets and teachings of the Buddha through a selection of essential texts from the Pali canon, the earliest Buddhist scriptures. Viewed by scholars as the actual substance of the historical teachings (and possibly even the words) of the Buddha, these texts are essential to an understanding of the Buddhist faith, and Batchelor illuminates them with her lucid analysis and interpretations. Both accessible to nonpractitioners and helpful to scholars, The Spirit of the Buddha touches upon key themes, including dharma, compassion, meditation, and peace, among others, creating a panoramic view of one of the world's most widely practiced faiths that is deeply rooted in its most vital texts.


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Image Problems : The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image in Early South Asia
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ISBN: 029580579X 9780295805795 9780295994567 0295994568 Year: 2015 Publisher: Seattle, [Washington] ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press,


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A storied sage : canon and creation in the making of a Japanese Buddha
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ISBN: 022628641X 9780226286419 9780226286389 022628638X Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has repeatedly disappeared and reappeared, emerging each time in a different form and to different ends. A Storied Sage traces this transformation of concepts of the Buddha, from Japan's ancient period in the eighth century to the end of the Meiji period in the early twentieth century. Micah L. Auerback follows the changing fortune of the Buddha through the novel uses for the Buddha's story in high and low culture alike, often outside of the confines of the Buddhist establishment. Auerback argues for the Buddha's continuing relevance during Japan's early modern period and links the later Buddhist tradition in Japan to its roots on the Asian continent. Additionally, he examines the afterlife of the Buddha in hagiographic literature, demonstrating that the late Japanese Buddha, far from fading into a ghost of his former self, instead underwent an important reincarnation. Challenging many established assumptions about Buddhism and its evolution in Japan, A Storied Sage is a vital contribution to the larger discussion of religion and secularization in modernity.

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