Reading the Mahavamsa - The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History

Klappentext Reading the Mahavamsa advocates a new! literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (to experience samvega and pasada) and affective work of metaphors (the Buddha's dharma as light) and salient characters (nagas). Zusammenfassung Reading the Mahavamsa advocates a new, literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (to experience samvega and pasada) and affective work of metaphors (the Buddha's dharma as light) and salient characters (nagas).

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• Authors: Kristin Scheible, Kristin (Associate Professor of Religion Scheible, Kristin (Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities Scheible, Scheible Kristin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780231171380
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17138-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli; South Asia Across the Disciplines
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / Buddhism / General, Buddhism, Buddhism: sacred texts and revered writings