Brides of the Buddha
Nuns' Stories from the Avadanasataka
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- £89.99
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- £89.99
Publisher Description
This study uses ten stories from the Avadānaśataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns’ hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.