04421cam a2200649Ii 4500 ocn945483438 OCoLC 20200709060438.0 m d cr |n||||||||| 160323s2016 nyu ob 001 0 eng d YDXCP eng rda pn YDXCP IDEBK N$T CDX TEFOD OCLCF EBLCP IDB VLB UAB W2U OCLCQ MERUC OCLCQ DEGRU OCLCA WRM OCLCQ OCLCO 945697834 984520582 9780231541008 (electronic bk.) 0231541007 (electronic bk.) 9780231160384 0231160380 9780231160391 0231160399 10.7312/coll16038 doi 1195726 (N$T) (OCoLC)945483438 (OCoLC)945697834 (OCoLC)984520582 BCA3269A-5074-4029-9911-7A26C28304BA OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com BQ1470.V487 R43 2016eb REL 017000 bisacsh 294.3/82325 23 MAIN Readings of the Vessantara Jātaka / edited by Steven Collins. New York : Columbia University Press, 2016. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Columbia readings of Buddhist literature Print version record. Introduction, dramatis personae, and chapters in the Vessantara Jātaka / Steven Collins -- Readers in the maze: modern debates about the Vessantara story in Thailand / Louis Gabaude -- Emotions and narrative: excessive giving and ethical ambivalence in the Lao Vessantara Jātaka / Patrice Ladwig -- Blissfully Buddhist and betrothed: marriage in the Vessantara Jātaka and other South and Southeast Asian Buddhist narratives / Justin Thomas McDaniel -- Jūjaka as trickster: the comedic monks of northern Thailand / Katherine A. Bowie -- Narration in the Vessantara painted scrolls of northeast Thailand and Laos / Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate -- A man for all seasons: three Vessantaras in premodern Myanmar / Lilian Handlin -- Vessantara opts out: Newar versions of the tale of the generous prince / Christoph Emmrich. The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted in texts, sermons, rituals, and art throughout South and Southeast Asia and beyond. This anthology features well-respected anthropologists, textual scholars in religious and Buddhist studies, and art historians, who engage in sophisticated readings of the text and its ethics of giving, understanding of attachment and nonattachment, depiction of the trickster, and unique performative qualities. They reveal the story to be as brilliantly layered as a Homeric epic or Shakespearean play, with aspects of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and utopian fantasy intertwined to problematize and scrutinize Theravada Buddhism's cherished virtues. In English. Master record variable field(s) change: 630 Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Jātaka. Vessantarajātaka Criticism, interpretation, etc. Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Jātaka. Vessantarajātaka. fast (OCoLC)fst01361777 RELIGION Comparative Religion. bisacsh Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Collins, Steven, 1951-2018, editor. Print version: 9780231160384 0231160380 (DLC) 2015012734 (OCoLC)923547777 Columbia readings of Buddhist literature. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1195726 Coutts Information Services COUT 34110698 De Gruyter DEGR 9780231541008 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL4409601 EBSCOhost EBSC 1195726 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis34110698 YBP Library Services YANK 12900089 92 N$T 56745 56745