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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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2786
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b15215
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Language of Document
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English
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Main Entry
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Flores, Ralph
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Title & Author
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Buddhist scriptures as literature:sacred rhetoric and the uses of theory/ Ralph Flores
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Publication Statement
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Albany: State University of New York Press,, c2008.
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Page. NO
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vii, 223 p.: ; 24 cm.
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ISBN
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9780791473399(hardcover : alk.paper)
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Notes
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Print
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.
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Contents
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Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts -- A prince transformed: the Nikغayas, the Nidغanakathغa, Aasvaghosa's Acts of the Buddha -- The Buddha awakening: the Nikغayas -- Winning conversions: the Nikغayas -- Passing on: the Nikغayas -- Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada -- Joyous negations: the Heart sutra -- Masters of emptiness: The gateless barrier and Zen folktales -- Extreme giving: The vessantara jغataka and Shantideva's A guide to the bodhisattva way of life -- Final emergency reading: The Tibetan book of the dead -- Epilogue: Images in the reader.
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Subject
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Buddhist literatureHistory and criticism
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Subject
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Tripiotaka as literature
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Tipiotaka.Suttapiotaka--Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Buddhism and literature
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Dewey Classification
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294.3.8
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LC Classification
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BQ1020.F56 2008
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