TY - BOOK ID - 7134331 TI - Handsome Nanda AU - Aśvaghoṣa AU - Covill, Linda PY - 2007 SN - 9780814716830 0814716830 PB - New York : New York University Press : JJC Foundation, DB - UniCat KW - Buddhist poetry KW - Gautama Buddha KW - Nanda KW - Friends and associates KW - Buddhist poetry. KW - Gautama Buddha - Friends and associates - Poetry KW - Nanda - Poetry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7134331 AB - Nanda has it all—youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfils his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha’s order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Handsome Nanda portrays its hero’s spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity and great poetic skill. ER -