Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature Motilal Banarsidass " - Robert G

" - Robert G

dealing with topics repeatedly dealt with in these texts

Jainism like science believes in objectivity and empiricism

I refer repeatedly to many different gift-of-the-body jatakas (which collectively make up the corpus from which I draw my conclusions)

We have used diacritical marks for Sanskrit words

Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature Motilal Banarsidass " - Robert GThis 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