05005cam a2200721 i 4500 ocn957077739 OCoLC 20200709060615.0 m d cr ||||||||||| 160819s2016 nyua ob 001 0 eng 2016038697 DLC eng rda pn DLC OCLCF YDX YDX OCLCO TEFOD JSTOR IDEBK CSAIL VLB UAB OCLCQ OCLCO DEBSZ OCLCQ IOG DEGRU OCLCA OCLCQ COO OCLCQ OCLCO N$T 979746053 992910500 9780231542609 (electronic bk.) 0231542607 (electronic bk.) 9780231171380 (hardcover alkaline paper) 10.7312/sche17138 doi 1821451 (N$T) (OCoLC)957077739 (OCoLC)979746053 (OCoLC)992910500 58350CB2-0DF8-417B-BFEA-A8A147D46030 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt1h645xm JSTOR pcc BQ2607 .S35 2016 LIT008020 bisacsh PHI028000 bisacsh REL007010 bisacsh REL007030 bisacsh REL007040 bisacsh REL 017000 bisacsh 294.3/824 23 MAIN Scheible, Kristin, author. Reading the Mahāvaṃsa : the literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history / Kristin Scheible. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages). text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier text file PDF rda South Asia across the disciplines Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 13, 2016). Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note On Transliteration And Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Instructions, Admonitions, And Aspirations In Vamsa Proems -- 2. Relocating The Light -- 3. Nāgas, Transfigured Figures Inside The Text, Ruminative Triggers Outside -- 4. Nāgas And Relics -- 5. Historicizing (In) The Pāli Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. The fifth-century Pali text Mahavamsa is a particularly effective example, using metaphor and other rhetorical devices to ethically transform readers, to stimulate and then to calm them. Reading the Mahavamsa 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). Kristin Scheible argues that the Mahavamsa requires a particular kind of reading. In the text's proem, special instructions draw readers to the metaphor of light and the nagas, or salient snake-beings, of the first chapter. Nagas are both model worshippers and unworthy hoarders of Buddha's relics. As nonhuman agents, they challenge political and historicist readings of the text. Scheible sees these slippery characters and the narrative's potent and playful metaphors as techniques for refocusing the reader's attention on the text's emotional aims. Her work explains the Mahavamsa's central motivational role in contemporary Sri Lankan Buddhist and nationalist circles. It also speaks broadly to strategies of reading religious texts and to the internal and external cues that give such works lives beyond the page. In English. Added to collection customer.56279.3 - Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Mahānāma, active 5th century. Mahāvaṃsa. Mahāvaṃsa (Mahānāma) fast (OCoLC)fst01356808 Buddhist literature, Pali History and criticism. Buddhist literature, Pali. fast (OCoLC)fst00840207 RELIGION / Comparative Religion bisacsh Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Print version: Scheible, Kristin. Reading the Mahāvaṃśa. New York : Columbia University Press, 2016 9780231171380 (DLC) 2016002531 South Asia across the disciplines. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1821451 De Gruyter DEGR 9780231542609 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis35600155 YBP Library Services YANK 13199925 EBSCOhost EBSC 1821451 92 N$T 57610 57610