This book explores the ethical and social implications of unilateral gifts of esteem, offering a perceptive guide to the uniquely South Asian contributors to theoretical work on the gift.
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Maria Heim is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Amherst College and has also taught at California State University, Long Beach. She holds a Ph. D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Reed College.
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To know how to give to be gracious rather than grasping is to be civilized. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Asian, Sri Lanka, Ornament of Lay People, Sea of Giving, Exposition Beginning, Compendium of Discourses, Siddhasena Ganin, Marcel Mauss, Gift-Offering of the True Dhamma, Meaning of the Truth, Cosmic Overlord, Kali Age, Robert Lingat, Ronald Inden, Sheldon Pollock, The Mitaksara, Dark Age, Sanskrit Cosmopolis, Shih Heng-ching New!
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To know how to give to be gracious rather than grasping is to be civilized. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Asian, Sri Lanka, Ornament of Lay People, Sea of Giving, Exposition Beginning, Compendium of Discourses, Siddhasena Ganin, Marcel Mauss, Gift-Offering of the True Dhamma, Meaning of the Truth, Cosmic Overlord, Kali Age, Robert Lingat, Ronald Inden, Sheldon Pollock, The Mitaksara, Dark Age, Sanskrit Cosmopolis, Shih Heng-ching New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Gift: An Interdisciplinary Perspective by E. Komter Aafke on 6 pages
- The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society by Michael Carrithers on 5 pages
- Spoken and Unspoken Thanks: Some Comparative Soundings (Studies in World Religions No 5) by John B. Carman on 4 pages
- Jewels of the Doctrine: Stories of the Saddharma Ratnavaliya (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies) (Buddhist Series) by Dharmasena Thera in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Death in Banaras (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) by Jonathan P. Parry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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