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| Readings of the Vessantara Jātaka | ||
| 作者 | Collins, Steven (編) |
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| 出版日期 | 2016.03 |
| 頁次 | 232 |
| 出版者 | Columbia University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://cup.columbia.edu/ |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 叢書名 | Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Steven Collins is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Divinity School. His books include Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism and Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali Imaginaire. |
| 摘要 | 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. |
| 目次 | Preface Introduction, Dramatis Personae, and Chapters in the Vessantara Jātaka, by Steven Collins 1. Readers in the Maze: Modern Debates About the Vessantara Story in Thailand, by Louis Gabaude 2. Emotions and Narrative: Excessive Giving and Ethical Ambivalence in the Lao Vessantara Jātaka, by Patrice Ladwig 3. Blissfully Buddhist and Betrothed: Marriage in the Vessantara Jātaka and Other South and Southeast Asian Buddhist Narratives, by Justin McDaniel 4. Jājaka as Trickster: The Comedic Monks of Northern Thailand, by Katherine Bowie 5. Narration in the Vessantara Painted Scrolls of Northeast Thailand and Laos, by Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate 6. A Man for All Seasons: Three Vessantaras in Premodern Myanmar, by Lilian Handlin 7. Vessantara Opts Out: Newar Versions of the Tale of the Generous Prince, by Christoph Emmrich Index |
| ISBN | 9780231160391 (Paperback); 9780231160384 (Hardcover); 9780231541008 (E-book) |
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| 點閱次數 | 363 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.08.11 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.09.08 |
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