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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 372 pages) , illustrations

Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction

ISBN: 0231510284 , 0231137087 , 9780231510288 , 9780231137089

Content: 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 B.C.E. 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, th

Content: Illustrations; Tables; Conventions Used in this Book; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Gift-of-the-Body Genre; II. Conventions of Plot; III. Conventions of Rhetoric; IV. DANA: The Buddhist Discourse on Giving; V.A Flexible Gift; VI. Bodies Ordinary and Ideal; VII. Kingship, Sacrifice, Offering, and Death; Conclusions; Appendix: A Corpus of Gift-of-the-Body Jatakas; Notes; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-358) and index , Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan) , Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL , Electronic reproduction , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. , English

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ohnuma, Reiko Head, eyes, flesh, and blood New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007

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Format: xvii, 372 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Michigan).

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ISBN: 9780231510288 , 0231510284

Content: 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.

Note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Michigan). , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Tables -- , Conventions Used in This Book -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , I. The Gift-of-the-Body Genre -- , II. Conventions of Plot -- , III. Conventions of Rhetoric -- , IV. Dāna: The Buddhist Discourse on Giving -- , V. A Flexible Gift -- , VI. Bodies Ordinary and Ideal -- , VII. Kingship, Sacrifice, Offering, and Death: Some Other Interpretive Contexts -- , Conclusions -- , Appendix: A Corpus of Gift-of-the-Body Jātaka -- , Notes -- , Bibliography of Works Cited -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781322438665

Additional Edition: ISBN 1322438668

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231137089

Additional Edition: ISBN 0231137087

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/ohnu13708