Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature
by
Reiko Ohnuma
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
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...