Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions : Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions (Paperback, New ed)

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 VA?lmA≪ki?, 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 JA?taka stories, Naomi Appleton. Part II Texts in Dialogue: Orality, authority and conservatism in the PrajA±A?pA?ramitA? SA≪tras, Douglas Osto; The dialogue of tradition: PurA?a¹‡a, GA≪tA?, and theological heritage, Elizabeth M. Rohlman; Dialogue and genre in Indian philosophy: GA≪tA?, polemic, and doxography, Andrew J. Nicholson. Part III Moving Between Traditions: Bowing to the Buddha: the relationship between literary and social dialogue in the NikA?yas, 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, Paa¹‡a¸?itas, Brahmins, and Bodhisattas and the conditions for the dialogic in ArthaA?A?stra and JA?taka scenarios of rule, Lisa Wessman Crothers; Dialogue and difference: encountering the other in Indian religious and philosophical sources, Brian Black. Index.