Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature

📚 Product Details

• Author: Reiko Ohnuma ✍️
• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
• Publication Date: August 30, 2008
• Language: English
• Print Length: 372 pages
• ISBN-10: 8120833600
• ISBN-13: 978-8120833609
• Item Weight: 700 g

🪷 About the Book

Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature explores the theme of self-sacrifice and the offering of the body as represented in Indian Buddhist literature. Reiko Ohnuma examines stories, religious ideals, and philosophical ideas surrounding acts of bodily sacrifice, generosity, compassion, and devotion.

The book provides an in-depth study of how these narratives developed within Buddhist traditions and what they reveal about Buddhist understandings of the body, selflessness, and the path toward spiritual attainment. 📖

✍️ About the Author

Reiko Ohnuma is a scholar of Buddhist studies whose research focuses on Indian Buddhist literature, religious narratives, gender, the body, and Buddhist ideas of self-sacrifice and generosity.