The Resource Reading the Mahāvaṃsa : the literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history, Kristin Scheible
Reading the Mahāvaṃsa : the literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history, Kristin Scheible
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- Summary
- Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. The fifth-century Pali text Mahavamsa is a particularly effective example, using metaphor and other rhetorical devices to ethically transform readers, to stimulate and then to calm them. Reading the Mahavamsa advocates a new, literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (to experience samvega and pasada) and affective work of metaphors (the Buddha's dharma as light) and salient characters (nagas). Kristin Scheible argues that the Mahavamsa requires a particular kind of reading. In the text's proem, special instructions draw readers to the metaphor of light and the nagas, or salient snake-beings, of the first chapter. Nagas are both model worshippers and unworthy hoarders of Buddha's relics. As nonhuman agents, they challenge political and historicist readings of the text. Scheible sees these slippery characters and the narrative's potent and playful metaphors as techniques for refocusing the reader's attention on the text's emotional aims. Her work explains the Mahavamsa's central motivational role in contemporary Sri Lankan Buddhist and nationalist circles. It also speaks broadly to strategies of reading religious texts and to the internal and external cues that give such works lives beyond the page
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages)
- Contents
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- 4. Nāgas And Relics
- 5. Historicizing (In) The Pāli Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note On Transliteration And Translation
- Introduction
- 1. Instructions, Admonitions, And Aspirations In Vamsa Proems
- 2. Relocating The Light
- 3. Nāgas, Transfigured Figures Inside The Text, Ruminative Triggers Outside
- Isbn
- 9780231542609
- Label
- Reading the Mahāvaṃsa : the literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history
- Title
- Reading the Mahāvaṃsa
- Title remainder
- the literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history
- Statement of responsibility
- Kristin Scheible
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. The fifth-century Pali text Mahavamsa is a particularly effective example, using metaphor and other rhetorical devices to ethically transform readers, to stimulate and then to calm them. Reading the Mahavamsa advocates a new, literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (to experience samvega and pasada) and affective work of metaphors (the Buddha's dharma as light) and salient characters (nagas). Kristin Scheible argues that the Mahavamsa requires a particular kind of reading. In the text's proem, special instructions draw readers to the metaphor of light and the nagas, or salient snake-beings, of the first chapter. Nagas are both model worshippers and unworthy hoarders of Buddha's relics. As nonhuman agents, they challenge political and historicist readings of the text. Scheible sees these slippery characters and the narrative's potent and playful metaphors as techniques for refocusing the reader's attention on the text's emotional aims. Her work explains the Mahavamsa's central motivational role in contemporary Sri Lankan Buddhist and nationalist circles. It also speaks broadly to strategies of reading religious texts and to the internal and external cues that give such works lives beyond the page
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Scheible, Kristin
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- South Asia across the disciplines
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mahānāma
- Buddhist literature, Pali
- Buddhist literature, Pali
- RELIGION / Comparative Religion
- Label
- Reading the Mahāvaṃsa : the literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history, Kristin Scheible
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- 4. Nāgas And Relics
- 5. Historicizing (In) The Pāli Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note On Transliteration And Translation
- Introduction
- 1. Instructions, Admonitions, And Aspirations In Vamsa Proems
- 2. Relocating The Light
- 3. Nāgas, Transfigured Figures Inside The Text, Ruminative Triggers Outside
- Control code
- ocn957077739
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231542609
- Lccn
- 2016038697
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.7312/sche17138
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 58350cb2-0df8-417b-bfea-a8a147d46030
- 22573/ctt1h645xm
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)957077739
- Label
- Reading the Mahāvaṃsa : the literary aims of a Theravāda Buddhist history, Kristin Scheible
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 4. Nāgas And Relics
- 5. Historicizing (In) The Pāli Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note On Transliteration And Translation
- Introduction
- 1. Instructions, Admonitions, And Aspirations In Vamsa Proems
- 2. Relocating The Light
- 3. Nāgas, Transfigured Figures Inside The Text, Ruminative Triggers Outside
- Control code
- ocn957077739
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231542609
- Lccn
- 2016038697
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.7312/sche17138
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 58350cb2-0df8-417b-bfea-a8a147d46030
- 22573/ctt1h645xm
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)957077739
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