Related Books

Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Reiko Ohnuma
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily sel
Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Reiko Ohnuma
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily sel
A Bull of a Man
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: John Powers
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-19 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Bud
Chambers's Journal
Language: en
Pages: 618
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1927 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Kuan-yin
Language: en
Pages: 657
Authors: Chün-fang Yü
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-22 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He h