Vol. 29 No. 1 (2012)

Published: 2012-07-13

Editorial

Introduction to the Papers on Jatakas and Related Stories

Naomi Appleton

1-3
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Articles

The Multi-life Stories of Gautama Buddha and Vardhamana Mahavira

Naomi Appleton

5-16
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Explicating the Buddha’s Final Illness in the Context of his Other Ailments the Making and Unmaking of some Jataka Tales

John S. Strong

17-33
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Not for the Achievement of a Savaka or Paccekabuddha The Motive behind the Bodhisatta’s Self-sacrifice in the Paññasa-Jataka

Toshiya Unebe

35-55
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Reshaping the Jataka Stories from Jatakas to Avadanas and Pranidhanas in Paintings at Kucha and Turfan

Tianshu Zhu

57-83
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The Employment and Significance of the Sadaprarudita’s Jataka/Avadana Story in Different Buddhist Traditions

Changtzu Shi

85-104
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Sleeping Next to My Coffin Representations of the body in Theravada Buddhism

Elizabeth J. Harris

105-120
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Epistemological Parallels between the Nikayas and the Upanisads

Stephen A. Evans

121-137
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Reviews

Civilisation et femmes célibataires dans le Bouddhisme en Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est: ‘Une étude de genre’, by Steven Collins.

Pascale Engelmajer

139-141
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Tibet: A History by Sam van Schaik.

Jill Sudbury

142-144
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Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: a Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, by Alan Wallace.

Walter Arader

145-149
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