Handsome Nanda

Klappentext Nanda has it all&8212;youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha&##8217;s order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Ashva-ghosha's Handsome Nanda portrays its hero's spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity, and great poetic skill. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.org Zusammenfassung Offers a collection of animal fables that are interwoven with human stories, designed to instruct wayward princes. This title also contains the compact version of King Vikrama's Adventures, thirty-two tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne.

Product details

• Authors: Asvaghosa, Linda (TRN) Asvaghosa/ Covill
• Assisted by: Ashvaghosa (Translation), Asvaghosha (Translation), Linda Covill (Translation)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780814716830
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-1683-0
• No. of pages: 387
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 165 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Clay Sanskrit Library; Clay Sanskrit Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions