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245 0 0 _aReadings of the Vessantara Jātaka /
_cedited by Steven Collins.
264 1 _aNew York :
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_c2016.
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505 0 0 _tIntroduction, dramatis personae, and chapters in the Vessantara Jātaka /
_rSteven Collins --
_tReaders in the maze: modern debates about the Vessantara story in Thailand /
_rLouis Gabaude --
_tEmotions and narrative: excessive giving and ethical ambivalence in the Lao Vessantara Jātaka /
_rPatrice Ladwig --
_tBlissfully Buddhist and betrothed: marriage in the Vessantara Jātaka and other South and Southeast Asian Buddhist narratives /
_rJustin Thomas McDaniel --
_tJūjaka as trickster: the comedic monks of northern Thailand /
_rKatherine A. Bowie --
_tNarration in the Vessantara painted scrolls of northeast Thailand and Laos /
_rLeedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate --
_tA man for all seasons: three Vessantaras in premodern Myanmar /
_rLilian Handlin --
_tVessantara opts out: Newar versions of the tale of the generous prince /
_rChristoph Emmrich.
520 _aThe 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.
546 _aIn English.
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630 0 0 _aTipiṭaka.
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700 1 _aCollins, Steven,
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