Buddhist Birth Stories

The Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant

T.W. Rhys Davids (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-84631-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This is Volume IX of sixteen in a series on Buddhism. Originally published in 1880, this study offers the first part of the oldest collection of folk-lore, the Jataka Tales. Translated from Pali.

Autor

T.W. Rhys Davids

Inhalt

Translator's Introduction, Part I The Book of Birth Stories and their Migration to the West Part II The Birth Stories in India, The Ceylon Compiler's Introduction called the Nidana Katha, The Birth Stories.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 138 x 216 mm
• Gewicht: 860 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 0-415-84631-5 / 0415846315
• ISBN-13: 978-0-415-84631-8 / 9780415846318
• Zustand: Neuware