Handsome Nanda
New York University Press
Published on 1. November 2007
Book
Hardback
387 pages
978-0-8147-1683-0 (ISBN)
Description
Nanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha's order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Ashva?ghosha's Handsome Nanda portrays its hero's spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity, and great poetic skill.
Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation
For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation
For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
671 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8147-1683-0 (9780814716830)
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