The Debate on Asceticism as a Permanent Choice of Life: Some Late Clues from Mahākāvyas
The present paper is focused on a couple of apparently contradictory Buddhacarita (Bcar) passages. On the one hand, there is the attribution of the pre-classical pattern of constituting kings in the sacrificial arena, implying a cyclical exchange between asceticism and warrior sovereignty, to Buddha...
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Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Cracow Indological Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1543 |