Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction, Brian Black and Laurie Patton. Part I Dialogues Inside and Outside the Texts: The frogs have raised their voice: Rg Veda 7.103 as a poetic contemplation of dialogue, Laurie Patton; Dialogue and apostrophe: a move by Vālmīki?, Alf Hiltebeitel; Didactic dialogues: communication of doctrine and strategies of narrative in Jain literature, Anna Aurelia Esposito; The Buddha as storyteller: the dialogical setting of Jātaka stories, Naomi Appleton. Part II Texts in Dialogue: Orality, authority and conservatism in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, Douglas Osto; The dialogue of tradition: Purāṇa, Gītā, and theological heritage, Elizabeth M. Rohlman; Dialogue and genre in Indian philosophy: Gītā, polemic, and doxography, Andrew J. Nicholson. Part III Moving Between Traditions: Bowing to the Buddha: the relationship between literary and social dialogue in the Nikāyas, Michael Nichols; The power of persuasion: the use of dialogues to justify and promote 'early' renunciation in the Jaina and Hindu traditions, Jonathan Geen; Trusted deceivers: illusion-making ascetics, Paáṇá¸itas, Brahmins, and Bodhisattas and the conditions for the dialogic in Arthaśāstra and Jātaka scenarios of rule, Lisa Wessman Crothers; Dialogue and difference: encountering the other in Indian religious and philosophical sources, Brian Black. Index.