"Avadānas" and "Jātakas" in the Newar Tradition of the Kathmandu Valley: Ritual Performances of Mahāyāna Buddhist Narratives

Among all the Sanskrit story narratives available in the vast archive of textual collections in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, certain Buddhist tales among them found special provenance in the Mahāyāna culture of the Newars, the indigenous inhabitants of this surviving oasis of later Indic Hindu-Buddh...

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Main Author: Lewis, Todd 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Religion compass
Year: 2015, Volume: 9, Issue: 8, Pages: 233-253
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kathmandu Valley / Newar / Mahayana / Avadāna / Story / Adaptation / Ritual
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
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