Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature Motilal Banarsidass 13 While the root is

13 While the root is there

" - Robert G

Jainism like science believes in objectivity and empiricism

I refer repeatedly to many different gift-of-the-body jatakas (which collectively make up the corpus from which I draw my conclusions)

but to the ancient hero Manu as a type of godly wisdom

Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature Motilal Banarsidass 13 While the root isThis 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 B. c. e. and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy