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