Buddhist scriptures as literature
Subtitle: sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory
By: Ralph Flores.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791473399
Subjects: Tipiṭaka. -- Suttapiṭaka -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Buddhist literature -- History and criticism; Tripiṭaka as literature; Buddhism and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts; title: A prince transformed: the Nikayas, the Nidanakatha; title: Asvaghosa's Acts of the Buddha; title: The Buddha awakening: the Nikayas; title: Winning conversions: the Nikayas; title: Passing on: the Nikayas; title: Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada; title: Joyous negations: the Heart sutra; title: Masters of emptiness: the Gateless barrier and Zen folktales; title: Extreme giving: the Vessantara jataka and; title: Shantideva's a Guide to the bodhisattva way; title: Final emergency reading: the Tibetan book of the dead; title: Images in the reader.