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Reading the Mah vamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History

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Reading the Mah vamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History - Scheible, Kristin
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Reading the Mah vamsa 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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Reading the Mah vamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History 2016, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231171380

Hardcover