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| the Buddhist Mythmaking of Defilement: Sacred Courtesans in Medieval Japan | ||
| 作者 | Marra, Michele |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.52 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 1993.02 |
| 頁次 | 49 - 65 |
| 出版者 | Association for Asian Studies |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.asian-studies.org/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 400 |
| 關鍵詞 | Vice (Buddhism); Japan -- Religious life and customs; Buddhism -- Japan -- Doctrines |
| 摘要 | Michele Marra shows how Buddhism in medieval Japan appropriated and transformed Japanese conceptions of defilement. He argues that Buddhism appropriated such notions in a manner that expanded its own role as the source of powerful, universalistic truth. To illustrate his case, Marra discusses the Buddhist treatment of women who were considered defiled because of their activities as prostitutes or courtesans. He shows that Buddhism presented itself as a powerful means by which defilement from such women could be either avoided or expunged, both for those who associated with such women or, indeed, the women themselves. He gives examples of how courtesans' songs became transformed into a Bodhisattva's offer of enlightenment, while their promises of physical intimacy were equated with offers of spiritual salvation. Marra emphasizes how Buddhism managed to appropriate much of the power believed to be possessed by shamanesses in the native Japanese tradition. He shows how the blending together of the roles of courtesan and shamaness, the themes of defilement and purification as antecedents to enlightenment, were common to all kinds of medieval Japanese tales and stories, especially those of a Buddhist character. Thus, he concludes that Buddhism captured, transformed for its own purposes, and rendered harmless previously independent religious ideas totally distinct from the Buddhist tradition. |
| 目次 | The Sacralization of Courtesans 52 Izumi Shikibu 59 List of References 64 |
| ISSN | 00219118 (P); 17520401 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 333 |
| 建檔日期 | 1998.04.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.03.13 |
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