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The Heavenly Exploits: Buddhist Biographies from the Divyavadana
Hardcover
Series: Clay Sanskrit Library, Book 12
ISBN13: 9780814782880
Publisher: Clay Sanskrit
Published: Feb 1 2005
Pages: 444
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
This selection of religious biographies from the early centuries C.E. offers a delightful introduction to a literary genre that has played an essential part in Buddhist self-understanding for over two thousand years.
The Heavenly Exploits are Buddhist Biographies from the DÃvyavadána. The worldly face of religious literature, these lively morality tales have inspired audiences across Asia for more than two millennia. This volume contains four of the thirty-eight Buddhist biographical stories in the DÃvyávadana, or Heavenly Exploits. Where religion meets the world, these tales present something for everyone.
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