Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Attitudes toward women and the feminine in early Buddhism / Alan Sponberg
  • The female mendicant in Buddhist Srī Laṅkā / Tessa Bartholomeusz
  • Buddhism and abortion in contemporary Japan : Mizuko Kuyō and the confrontation with death / Bardwell Smith
  • Buddhist women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian Conversion Movement / Eleanor Zelliot
  • Gender andpersuasion : the portrayal of beauty, anguish, and nurturance in an account of a Tamil nun / Paula Richman
  • Lin-chi (Rinzai) Chʻan and gender : the rhetoric of equality and the rhetoric of heroism / Miriam L. Levering
  • The gender symbolism of Kuan-yin Bodhisattva / Barbara E. Reed
  • Mother wisdom, father love : gender-based imagery in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought / José Ignacio Cabezón
  • Homosexuality as seen in Indian Buddhist texts / Leonard Zwilling
  • Kūkai and the tradition of male love in Japanese Buddhism / Paul Gordon Schalow.