Handsome Nanda

by Aśvaghoṣa and Ashvaghosha

Nanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha's order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Ashva·ghosha's Handsome Nanda portrays...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814716830
• ISBN13: 9780814716830
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Clay Sanskrit
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.6" x 6.7"