Jataka Stories in Theravada Buddhism
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27365-8 (ISBN)
Naomi Appleton is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for the History of Religion in Asia, Cardiff University, Wales. She began her studies of Buddhist birth stories as an undergraduate, and has pursued this area of research since that time, producing two theses (M.Phil. Cardiff, 2004 and D.Phil. Oxford, 2008) as well as several articles. She is now beginning a new project funded by the British Academy into the uses of birth stories in Buddhist and Jain literature.
Chapter 1 What is a J?taka?; Chapter 2 The Bodhisatta in J?taka Stories; Chapter 3 The Creation of a J?taka Genre; Chapter 4 Generic Conventions Embraced and Ignored; Chapter 5 J?takas and Buddhology; Chapter 6 J?takas and Biography; Chapter 7 J?taka Ideology in Practice; Chapter 8 The Perfection of Storytelling;
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.09.2016 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-27365-1 / 1138273651 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-27365-8 / 9781138273658 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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