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Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century BCE and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. Whether he takes the form of king, prince, ascetic, elephant, hare, serpent, or god, the bodhisattva repeatedly gives his body or parts of his flesh to others. He leaps into fires, drowns himself in the ocean, rips out his tusks, gouges out his eyes, and lets mosquitoes drink from his blood, always out of selflessness and compassion and to achieve the highest state of Buddhahood. Ohnuma places these stories into a discrete subgenre of South Asian Buddhist literature and approaches them like case studies, analyzing their plots, characterizations, and rhetoric. She then relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice to major conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions, such as the categories of the gift, the body (both ordinary and extraordinary), kingship, sacrifice, ritual offering, and death. Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood reveals a very sophisticated and influential perception of the body in South Asian Buddhist literature and highlights the way in which these stories have provided an important cultural resource for Buddhists. Combined with her rich and careful translations of classic texts, Ohnuma introduces a whole new understanding of a vital concept in Buddhists studies.

Buddhist literature --- Sacrifice in literature. --- Themes, motives. --- Gautama Buddha --- Pre-existence. --- Religious literature --- Gautama, --- Fo-tʻo --- Buddha, --- Gotama, --- Shih-chia-mou-ni --- Shijiamuni --- Sākyamuni --- Sŏkka --- Buddha --- Sŏgamoni --- Shākyamuni --- Shakamuni-butsu --- Shakuson --- Shittaruta --- Shih-chia Ju-lai --- Phraphutthačhao --- Pultʻa --- Putta --- Siddhartha Gotama --- Gotama, Siddhartha --- Budda --- Śākya-thup-pa --- Shi-chia-mu-ni --- Siddhartha Gautama --- Gautama, Siddhartha --- Bhayavat --- Tathagata --- Siduhat Kumāraya --- Puttar --- Puttan̲ --- Kautama Puttar --- Puttapirān̲ --- Cittārtta Kautama Puttar --- Siddhārtha, --- Tất Đạt Đa --- בודהא --- 釈迦 --- 释迦牟尼 --- 釋迦牟尼 --- Sitthattha Khōtama --- Khōtama, Sitthattha --- Gotama, Siddhatta --- Buddhist literature - India - Themes, motives. --- Gautama Buddha - Pre-existence.

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Gautama Buddha --- Gautama Buddha. --- 294.367 --- 294.367 Boeddhisme: de Boeddha--(stichter) --- Boeddhisme: de Boeddha--(stichter) --- Gautama, --- Fo-tʻo --- Buddha, --- Gotama, --- Shih-chia-mou-ni --- Shijiamuni --- Sākyamuni --- Sŏkka --- Buddha --- Sŏgamoni --- Shākyamuni --- Shakamuni-butsu --- Shakuson --- Shittaruta --- Shih-chia Ju-lai --- Phraphutthačhao --- Pultʻa --- Putta --- Siddhartha Gotama --- Gotama, Siddhartha --- Budda --- Śākya-thup-pa --- Shi-chia-mu-ni --- Siddhartha Gautama --- Gautama, Siddhartha --- Bhayavat --- Tathagata --- Siduhat Kumāraya --- Puttar --- Puttan̲ --- Kautama Puttar --- Puttapirān̲ --- Cittārtta Kautama Puttar --- Siddhārtha, --- Tất Đạt Đa --- בודהא --- 釈迦 --- 释迦牟尼 --- 釋迦牟尼 --- Sitthattha Khōtama --- Khōtama, Sitthattha --- Gotama, Siddhatta

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'The Buddha and his Dhamma' presents B.R. Ambedkar's review and analysis of the vast Buddhist canon and literature. This is the first critical edition of the book published posthumously in 1957. Besides a new introduction, it includes footnotes and annotations which explain missing references and passages in the original text.

Buddhism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Doctrines --- Ambedkar, B. R. --- Gautama Buddha. --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Gautama, --- Fo-tʻo --- Buddha, --- Gotama, --- Shih-chia-mou-ni --- Shijiamuni --- Sākyamuni --- Sŏkka --- Buddha --- Sŏgamoni --- Shākyamuni --- Shakamuni-butsu --- Shakuson --- Shittaruta --- Shih-chia Ju-lai --- Phraphutthačhao --- Pultʻa --- Putta --- Siddhartha Gotama --- Gotama, Siddhartha --- Budda --- Śākya-thup-pa --- Shi-chia-mu-ni --- Siddhartha Gautama --- Gautama, Siddhartha --- Bhayavat --- Tathagata --- Siduhat Kumāraya --- Puttar --- Puttan̲ --- Kautama Puttar --- Puttapirān̲ --- Cittārtta Kautama Puttar --- Siddhārtha, --- Tất Đạt Đa --- בודהא --- 釈迦 --- 释迦牟尼 --- 釋迦牟尼 --- Sitthattha Khōtama --- Khōtama, Sitthattha --- Gotama, Siddhatta --- Doctrines.

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Buddhist art --- Narrative art --- Art, Narrative --- Narrative art (Visual arts) --- Art genres --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art --- Gautama Buddha --- Gautama, --- Fo-tʻo --- Buddha, --- Gotama, --- Shih-chia-mou-ni --- Shijiamuni --- Sākyamuni --- Sŏkka --- Buddha --- Sŏgamoni --- Shākyamuni --- Shakamuni-butsu --- Shakuson --- Shittaruta --- Shih-chia Ju-lai --- Phraphutthačhao --- Pultʻa --- Putta --- Siddhartha Gotama --- Gotama, Siddhartha --- Budda --- Śākya-thup-pa --- Shi-chia-mu-ni --- Siddhartha Gautama --- Gautama, Siddhartha --- Bhayavat --- Tathagata --- Siduhat Kumāraya --- Puttar --- Puttan̲ --- Kautama Puttar --- Puttapirān̲ --- Cittārtta Kautama Puttar --- Siddhārtha, --- Tất Đạt Đa --- בודהא --- 釈迦 --- 释迦牟尼 --- 釋迦牟尼 --- Sitthattha Khōtama --- Khōtama, Sitthattha --- Gotama, Siddhatta

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This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within the Buddhist community and in society at large. By comparing innovations in Brahmanical, Jain, and royal artistic practice, DeCaroli examines why no image of the Buddha was made until approximately five hundred years after his death and what changed in the centuries surrounding the start of the Common Era to suddenly make those images desirable and acceptable.The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.

Buddhist art and symbolism --- Buddhist symbolism --- Lamaist symbolism --- Symbolism and Buddhist art --- Symbolism --- Gautama Buddha --- Gautama, --- Fo-tʻo --- Buddha, --- Gotama, --- Shih-chia-mou-ni --- Shijiamuni --- Sākyamuni --- Sŏkka --- Buddha --- Sŏgamoni --- Shākyamuni --- Shakamuni-butsu --- Shakuson --- Shittaruta --- Shih-chia Ju-lai --- Phraphutthačhao --- Pultʻa --- Putta --- Siddhartha Gotama --- Gotama, Siddhartha --- Budda --- Śākya-thup-pa --- Shi-chia-mu-ni --- Siddhartha Gautama --- Gautama, Siddhartha --- Bhayavat --- Tathagata --- Siduhat Kumāraya --- Puttar --- Puttan̲ --- Kautama Puttar --- Puttapirān̲ --- Cittārtta Kautama Puttar --- Siddhārtha, --- Tất Đạt Đa --- בודהא --- 釈迦 --- 释迦牟尼 --- 釋迦牟尼 --- Art. --- Sitthattha Khōtama --- Khōtama, Sitthattha --- Gotama, Siddhatta