Readings of the Vessantara Jātaka /
Readings of the Vessantara Jātaka /
edited by Steven Collins.
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
- 216 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm.
- Columbia readings of Buddhist literature .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction, dramatis personae, and chapters in the Vessantara Jātaka / Steven Collins --
Readers in the maze: modern debates about the Vessantara story in Thailand / Louis Gabaude --
Emotions and narrative: excessive giving and ethical ambivalence in the Lao Vessantara Jātaka / Patrice Ladwig --
Blissfully Buddhist and betrothed: marriage in the Vessantara Jātaka and other South and Southeast Asian Buddhist narratives / Justin Thomas McDaniel --
Jūjaka as trickster: the comedic monks of northern Thailand / Katherine A. Bowie --
Narration in the Vessantara painted scrolls of northeast Thailand and Laos / Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate --
A man for all seasons: three Vessantaras in premodern Myanmar / Lilian Handlin --
Vessantara opts out: Newar versions of the tale of the generous prince / Christoph Emmrich.
9780231160391 (pbk.)
2015012734
Tipiṭaka.--Suttapiṭaka.--Khuddakanikāya.--Jātaka.--Vessantarajātaka--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
294.382325 REA / 008865
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction, dramatis personae, and chapters in the Vessantara Jātaka / Steven Collins --
Readers in the maze: modern debates about the Vessantara story in Thailand / Louis Gabaude --
Emotions and narrative: excessive giving and ethical ambivalence in the Lao Vessantara Jātaka / Patrice Ladwig --
Blissfully Buddhist and betrothed: marriage in the Vessantara Jātaka and other South and Southeast Asian Buddhist narratives / Justin Thomas McDaniel --
Jūjaka as trickster: the comedic monks of northern Thailand / Katherine A. Bowie --
Narration in the Vessantara painted scrolls of northeast Thailand and Laos / Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate --
A man for all seasons: three Vessantaras in premodern Myanmar / Lilian Handlin --
Vessantara opts out: Newar versions of the tale of the generous prince / Christoph Emmrich.
9780231160391 (pbk.)
2015012734
Tipiṭaka.--Suttapiṭaka.--Khuddakanikāya.--Jātaka.--Vessantarajātaka--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
294.382325 REA / 008865