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Article: Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Edited by JULIANE SCHOHER. Honolulu: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS, 1997. Pp. xi + 366, 4 plates. $49.
The papers included in this useful volume were collected from two symposia held in 1990. The first was held at Arizona State University and focused on "Interpretations of Jataka Tales in Southeast Asia." Four of the twelve papers included here (by Robert Brown, Thomas Hudak, Frank Reynolds, and Mark Woodward) were presented at that initial meeting. The second symposium was held several months later at the University of Chicago, concentrating on "Buddhist 'Life Stories': Sacred Biography in ...