Unfortunate destiny : (Record no. 2221)
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| fixed length control field | 01564cam a2200373 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780190872663 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 294.30954 R2729 U |
| Item number | 102096 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Reiko Ohnuma |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Unfortunate destiny : |
| Remainder of title | animals in the Indian Buddhist imagination / |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 242 |
| Accompanying material | 25 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Unfortunate destiny focuses on the roles played by nonhuman 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 rebirth is a most "unfortunate destiny" (durgati), won through negative karma and characterized by a lack of intelligence, moral agency and spiritual potential. In stories about the Buddha's previous lives, on the other hand, we find highly anthropomorphized animals who are wise, virtuous, endowed with human speech and often critical of the moral shortcomings of humankind. In the life-story of the Buddha, certain animal characters serve as "doubles" of the Buddha, illuminating his nature through identification, contrast or parallelism with an animal "other." Relations between human beings and animals likewise range all the way from support, friendship and near-equality to rampant exploitation, cruelty and abuse. Perhaps the only commonality among these various strands of thought is a persistent impulse to use animals to clarify the nature of humanity itself—whether through similarity, contrast or counterpoint. Buddhism is a profoundly human-centered religious tradition, yet it relies upon a dexterous use of the animal other to help clarify the human self. This book seeks to make sense of this process through a wide-ranging-exploration of animal imagery, animal discourse and specific animal characters in South Asian Buddhist texts |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Buddhist literature |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Animals in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Animals |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Buddhism |
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| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Ubhayabharati | Ubhayabharati | General Stacks | 13/03/2018 | 495.00 | 294.30954 R2729 U 102096 | 102096 | 13/03/2018 | Books |