Head, Eyes, Flesh, Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature

by Reiko Ohnuma

Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century BCE and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231137087
• ISBN13: 9780231137089
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher