Unfortunate destiny : animals in the Indian Buddhist imagination / Reiko Ohnuma.

Unfortunate Destiny focuses on the roles played by non-human animals within the imaginative thought-world of Indian Buddhism, as reflected in pre-modern South Asian Buddhist literature. These roles are multifaceted, diverse, and often contradictory: In Buddhist doctrine and cosmology, the animal reb...

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Main Author: Ohnuma, Reiko (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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