[PDF.79qf] The Heavenly Exploits: Buddhist Biographies from the Divyavadana (Clay Sanskrit Library)

The Heavenly Exploits: Buddhist Biographies from the Divyavadana (Clay Sanskrit Library)

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 | #1476550 in Books |  NYU Press |  2005-02-01 |  2005-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.76 x.81 x4.62l,.65 | File type: PDF | 444 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Buddhist folklore stories-saints and kings|By Aimee Brant|This is a wonderful collection of stories. Non-scholars might be put off by the regularly occurring, repetitive bits, but these are found in all kinds of folk tales. One interesting venture is to compare these tales to the Bengali mangal kavya literature,for example David Curley's study (Poetry and History: Bengali Manga| ||“No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an in

This selection of religious biographies from the early centuries C.E. offers a delightful introduction to a literary genre that has played an essential part in Buddhist self-understanding for over two thousand years.

The Heavenly Exploits are “Buddhist Biographies from the Dívyavadána.” The worldly face of religious literature, these lively morality tales have inspired audiences across Asia for more than two millennia. This volum...

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