Buddhist scriptures as literature [electronic resource] : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory / Ralph Flores.
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TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008Description: 1 online resource (vii, 223 p.)ISBN: 9781435632127 (electronic bk.); 1435632125 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Buddhist literature -- History and criticism | Tripi�taka as literature | Tipi�taka. Suttapi�taka -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Buddhism and literature | RELIGION -- Buddhism -- GeneralGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Buddhist scriptures as literature.DDC classification: 294.3/8 LOC classification: BQ1020 | .F66 2008ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.
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.
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