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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aScheible, Kristin, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aReading the Mahāvaṃsa : _bthe literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history / _cKristin Scheible.
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2016]
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 223 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bn _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bnc _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	1		_aSouth Asia across the disciplines
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
588	0		_aOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 13, 2016).
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tA Note On Transliteration And Translation -- _tIntroduction -- _t1. Instructions, Admonitions, And Aspirations In Vamsa Proems -- _t2. Relocating The Light -- _t3. Nāgas, Transfigured Figures Inside The Text, Ruminative Triggers Outside -- _t4. Nāgas And Relics -- _t5. Historicizing (In) The Pāli Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa -- _tConclusion -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
520			_aVamsa 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.
546			_aIn English.
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600	0	0	_aMahānāma, _dactive 5th century. _tMahāvaṃsa.
630	0	7	_aMahāvaṃsa (Mahānāma) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01356808
650		0	_aBuddhist literature, Pali _xHistory and criticism.
650		7	_aBuddhist literature, Pali. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00840207
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655		4	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aScheible, Kristin. _tReading the Mahāvaṃśa. _dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2016 _z9780231171380 _w(DLC) 2016002531
830		0	_aSouth Asia across the disciplines.
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