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Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature

Autor: Liz Wilson

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: University of Chicago Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství

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In this study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Bu...

Informace o knize

Autor

Liz Wilson

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

1996

Stránek

240

EAN

9780226900537

Enbook ID

04550536

Vydavatel

University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

520

Rozměry

152 x 228 x 21

Kompletní popis

In this study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of Buddhist monks, women's bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after death) served as a central object for meditation, inspiring spiritual growth through sexual abstention and repulsion in the immediate world. Taking up a set of universal concerns connected with the representation of women, Wilson displays the pervasiveness of an drocentrism in Buddhist literature and practice.