Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature Motilal Banarsidass I refer repeatedly to many

I refer repeatedly to many different gift-of-the-body jatakas (which collectively make up the corpus from which I draw my conclusions)

but to the ancient hero Manu as a type of godly wisdom

cosmology and ritual

Jainism like science believes in objectivity and empiricism

I have not been able to visit Kailas- Manasarovar

Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature Motilal Banarsidass I refer repeatedly to manyThis is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century B. c. e. and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy