Readings of the Vessantara Jātaka / edited by Steven Collins.

Contributor(s):

Collins, Steven [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Columbia readings of Buddhist literaturePublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.Description: 216 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780231160391 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Jātaka. Vessantarajātaka -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

DDC classification:

294.382325 REA 23 008865

Contents:

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.

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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.

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