Handsome Nanda

By Aśvaghoṣa and Ashvaghosha

Book Overview

Nanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha's order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Ashva-ghosha's Handsome Nanda portrays its hero's spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity, and great poetic skill.

Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814716830
• ISBN13: 9780814716830
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Clay Sanskrit
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.6" x 6.7"