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Riven by lust : incest and schism in Indian Buddhist legend and historiography /

"Riven by Lust explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. In tracing this Buddhist Oedipal tale, Jonathan Silk follows it through texts in all of the major canonical languages of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Silk, Jonathan A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Incest and Schism
  • 2. The Creation of Sects in Early Buddhism
  • 3. The Story of Mahadeva
  • 4. The Buddhist Context of Sin
  • 5. Mahadeva in Other Sources
  • 6. Schism Accounts in Buddhist Doxographies
  • 7. The Story of Dharmaruci
  • 8. Abuse and Victimhood
  • 9. Persian Perversities
  • 10. The Bedtrick
  • 11. Retelling Dharmaruci's Story
  • 12. Dharmaruci in Other Sources
  • 13. Incest in Indian Buddhist Culture
  • 14. The Story of Utpalavar?a
  • 15. The "Indian Oedipus"
  • 16. Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar
  • 17. Further Dimensions of the Oedipal In India
  • 18. The Medieval European Oedipal Judas
  • 19. Why Incest Taboos?
  • 20. Forging Mahadeva.