TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,Steven
TI  - Readings of the Vessantara Jātaka
T2  - Columbia readings of Buddhist literature
SN  - 9780231160391 (pbk.)
U1  - 294.382325 REA 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Tipiṭaka
KW  - Suttapiṭaka
KW  - Khuddakanikāya
KW  - Jātaka
KW  - Vessantarajātaka
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
ER  -