Reading the Mahavamsa - The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History - Kristin Scheible - Hardback Bog - Columbia University Press - 2016 -
Brand: Columbia University Press
Description
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).
