Author: Charles Duroiselle
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
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Author: Charles Duroiselle
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Charles Duroiselle
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Charles Duroiselle
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Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: Steven Collins
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231541007
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted in texts, sermons, rituals, and art throughout South and Southeast Asia and beyond. This anthology features well-respected anthropologists, textual scholars in religious and Buddhist studies, and art historians, who engage in sophisticated readings of the text and its ethics of giving, understanding of attachment and nonattachment, depiction of the trickster, and unique performative qualities. They reveal the story to be as brilliantly layered as a Homeric epic or Shakespearean play, with aspects of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and utopian fantasy intertwined to problematize and scrutinize Theravada Buddhism's cherished virtues.

Author: Charles Duroiselle
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Archaeological Survey of India
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Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Archaeological Survey of Burma
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Robert S. Wicks
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501719475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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This substantial work explores the impact of monetization in premodern Southeast Asia from the third century BCE to the rise of Maleka in the early fifteenth century. The author explores why concepts of money developed unevenly throughout the region. He considers trade policies, price controls, exchange ratios, monopolies, variant standards of value, and the administrative structures required to support such a complex economic innovation.