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Renunciant Stories across Traditions : = A Novel Approach to the Acts of Thomas and the Buddhist Jatakas.

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Title/Author:	Renunciant Stories across Traditions :/
Reminder of title:	A Novel Approach to the Acts of Thomas and the Buddhist Jatakas.
Author:	Kunu, Vishma.
Description:	1 online resource (190 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
Subject:	Religion. -
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ISBN:	9780355952575

Renunciant Stories across Traditions : = A Novel Approach to the Acts of Thomas and the Buddhist Jatakas.
Kunu, Vishma.

Renunciant Stories across Traditions :A Novel Approach to the Acts of Thomas and the Buddhist Jatakas. - 1 online resource (190 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This study brings excerpts from the Acts of Thomas (Act 1.11-16 and Act 3.30-33) together with two Buddhist jatakas (Udaya Jataka--#458 and Visavanta Jataka--#69) to consider how stories might have been transmitted in the early centuries of the common era in a milieu of mercantile exchange on the Indian Ocean. The Acts of Thomas is a 3rd century CE Syriac Christian text concerned with the apostle Thomas proselytizing in India. The jatakas are popular didactic narratives with a pronounced oral dimension that purport to be accounts of the Buddha's previous lives. Syriac Christians possessed knowledge about Indian religious practices linked to renunciation, and it is plausible that they adapted Buddhist jatakas to convey Christian ideas in the account of Thomas journeying to India and converting people there. Epigraphic evidence from the western Deccan in India attests to yavana, or Greek, patronage of Buddhist institutions in cosmopolitan settings where ideas and commodities circulated. Against the grain in scholarship on early Christianity that tends to privilege Latin and Greek sources, this project moves the lens of analysis eastward to consider Indian influence on early Christianity as expressed in the Acts of Thomas. A literary comparison of the texts under consideration with reference to the historical and cultural context of exchange reveals similar models of renunciant practices in Buddhism and Christianity that establishes new grounds for consideration of interconnectivity across 'East' and 'West.'

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355952575Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Religion.
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