{"product_id":"handsome-nanda-1","title":"Handsome Nanda","description":"\u003cp\u003eNanda 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 \u003cb\u003eHandsome Nanda\u003c\/b\u003e portrays its hero’s spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity, and great poetic skill.\u003cbr\u003e\nCo-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\nFor more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http:\/\/www.claysanskritlibrary.org\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Linda Covill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573542715574,"sku":"9781479820412","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781479820412.jpg?v=1712138955","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/handsome-nanda-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}