Title: Buddhist scriptures as literature : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory /
Authors: Flores, Ralph.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Tipiṭaka. Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Buddhist literature History and criticism.; Tripiṭaka as literature.; Buddhism and literature.
Contents: Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts -- A prince transformed: the Nikāyas, the Nidānakathā, Aśvaghoşa's Acts of the Buddha -- The Buddha awakening: the Nikāyas -- Winning conversions: the Nikāyas -- Passing on: the Nikāyas -- Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada -- Joyous negations: the Heart sutra -- Masters of emptiness: The gateless barrier and Zen folktales -- Extreme giving: The vessantara jātaka 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.