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This work focuses on the imagery and roles of nonhuman animals in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature.
This book constitutes the first major study of Indian Buddhist ideas about nonhuman animals and the roles played by animal characters in Buddhist literature.
Unfortunate destiny -- Introduction -- Unfortunate destiny: animals in a Buddhist cosmos -- Catching sight of the Buddha: -- Faithful animals in the Divyavadana and Avadanasataka -- When animals speak: animals in the Pali Jatakas -- Introduction -- (Human) nature, red in tooth a…
Unfortunate Destiny focuses on the roles played by non-human animals within the imaginative thought-world of Indian Buddhism, as reflected in pre-modern South Asian Buddhist literature. These roles are multifaceted, diverse, and often contradictory: In Buddhist doctrine and cosm…
Unfortunate Destiny focuses on the roles played by non-human animals within the imaginative thought-world of Indian Buddhism, as reflected in pre-modern South Asian Buddhist literature. These roles are multifaceted, diverse, and often contradictory: In Buddhist doctrine and cosm…
