Handsome Nanda

Handsome Nanda

by Linda Covill, Ashvaghosa
ISBN-10:
0814716830
ISBN-13:
9780814716830
Pub. Date:
11/01/2007
Publisher:
New York University Press
ISBN-10:
0814716830
ISBN-13:
9780814716830
Pub. Date:
11/01/2007
Publisher:
New York University Press
Handsome Nanda

Handsome Nanda

by Linda Covill, Ashvaghosa
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Overview

Nanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha's order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Ashva·ghosha’s Handsome Nanda portrays its hero’s spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity, and great poetic skill.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814716830
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2007
Series: Clay Sanskrit Library , #39
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 387
Product dimensions: 4.50(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.90(d)

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