Crossing to the Farthest Shore:
How Pāli Jātakas Launch the Buddhist Image of the Boat onto the Open Seas

By Sarah Shaw

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29 pages

Buddhist literature offers us the only narratives from this period that feature to any great extent the nautical or maritime traveller as hero.

About: Imagery in the EBTs

Published in 2012 in The Journal of the Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies by The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.

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    title={{C}rossing to the {F}arthest {S}hore: {H}ow {P}āli {J}ātakas {L}aunch the {B}uddhist {I}mage of the {B}oat onto the {O}pen {S}eas},
    author={Sarah Shaw},
    publisher={The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies},
    year=2012,
    journal={The Journal of the Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies},
    volume=3,
    pages={128--156},
    keywords={medieval,jataka,theravada-roots,imagery,oceans},
    ranking={rank4},
    url={http://www.jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/29/31}
}

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