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Flores, Ralph. Buddhist scriptures as literature sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory / Ralph Flores. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
1 online resource (vii, 223 p.) Content notes : Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts -- A prince transformed: the Nik�ayas, the Nid�anakath�a, A�svagho�sa's Acts of the Buddha -- The Buddha awakening: the Nik�ayas -- Winning conversions: the Nik�ayas -- Passing on: the Nik�ayas -- Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada -- Joyous negations: the Heart sutra -- Masters of emptiness: The gateless barrier and Zen folktales -- Extreme giving: The vessantara j�ataka and Shantideva's A guide to the bodhisattva way of life -- Final emergency reading: The Tibetan book of the dead -- Epilogue: Images in the reader. 9781435632127 (electronic bk.) 1435632125 (electronic bk.) * Buddhist literature - History and criticism. Tripi�taka as literature. Buddhism and literature. RELIGION - Buddhism - General.