Courtesans and tantric consorts : sexualities in Buddhist narrative, iconography and ritual /

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The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Young, Serinity (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Subjects:
Gautama Buddha.
Gautama Buddha > Relations with women.
Women in the Tripiṭaka.
Women in Buddhism > India.
Buddhist art and symbolism.
Femmes dans le Tripiṭaka.
Femmes dans le bouddhisme > Inde.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Relations with women.
Women in Buddhism.
India.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Life of the Buddha
  • pt. 2. Parents and procreation
  • pt. 3. Sexualities.
  • pt. I. Life of the Buddha
  • Ch. 1. Rejection and Reconciliation
  • pt. II. Parents and Procreation
  • Ch. 2. Mothers and Sons
  • Ch. 3. Medical Excursus
  • Ch. 4. Fathers and Heirs
  • pt. III. Sexualities
  • Ch. 5. Wives and Husbands
  • Ch. 6. South Asian Courtesans
  • Ch. 7. Courtesans in Buddhist Literature
  • Ch. 8. Tantric Consorts: Introduction
  • Ch. 9. Tantric Consorts: Tibet
  • Ch. 10. Traffic in Women
  • Ch. 11. Women, Men, and Impurity
  • Ch. 12. Sex Change
  • Ch. 13. Other Lands/Other Realities.

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