Buddhist scriptures as literature : sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Flores, Ralph
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Buddhist literature > History and criticism. Tripiṭaka as literature. Tipiṭaka. > Suttapiṭaka > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Buddhism and literature.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts
A prince transformed: the Nikāyas, the Nidānakathā, Aśvaghoşa's Acts of the Buddha
The Buddha awakening: the Nikāyas
Winning conversions: the Nikāyas
Passing on: the Nikāyas
Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada
Joyous negations: the Heart sutra
Masters of emptiness: The gateless barrier and Zen folktales
Extreme giving: The vessantara jātaka and Shantideva's A guide to the bodhisattva way of life
Final emergency reading: The Tibetan book of the dead
Epilogue: Images in the reader.