Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood
Subtitle: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780231510288
Subjects: Buddhism - General; Religion - World Religions
Description: "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."--Jacket.