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Monks and Magicians brings together seven essays of the little studied and important topic of religious biographies in Asia. Three essays deal with biographies of Buddhist and Jain figures in India. One essay treats the biography of a Tibetan king. The remaining three essays explore the different strategies that were employed in writing biographies in traditional China.
This book contains one long, very interesting and informative essay on biographical writings in the Jain tradition. The author translates and discusses biographies and autobiographies of two Jain monks who lived in the 11th and 14th centuries respectively. The book also brings together twelve essays by leading scholars of Chinee and Indian civilizations from Europe, North America and Asia. The essays cover a wide range of topics in Indian and ...