Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature Motilal Banarsidass cosmology and ritual

cosmology and ritual

I have not been able to visit Kailas- Manasarovar

dealing with topics repeatedly dealt with in these texts

I refer repeatedly to many different gift-of-the-body jatakas (which collectively make up the corpus from which I draw my conclusions)

13 While the root is there

Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature Motilal Banarsidass cosmology and ritualThis is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century B. c. e. and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy