What the Buddha Thought - Richard Gombrich
The Buddha as Satirist; Brahmin Terms as Social Metaphors
What the Buddha Thought - Richard Gombrich
Richard Gombrich
Oxford University
Description
Buddhist popular literature regularly presents brahmins in a most unfavourable light. The Vessantara Jåtaka,1 the account of the Buddhaís last birth on earth before this final one, is probably the best-known story in the entire Theravada tradition, and has been important in other Buddhist traditions too.