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| Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature | ||
| 作者 | Wilson, Liz |
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| 出版日期 | 1996.12 |
| 頁次 | 276 |
| 出版者 | University of Chicago Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://press.uchicago.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Chicago, IL, US [芝加哥, 伊利諾伊州, 美國] |
| 叢書名 | Women in Culture and Society |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | In this highly original 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 androcentrism in Buddhist literature and practice. She also makes persuasive use of recent historical work on the religious lives of women in medieval Christianity, finding common ground in the role of miraculous afflictions. This lively and readable study brings provocative new tools and insights to the study of women in religious life. |
| 目次 | [Table of Contents] Foreword Catharine R. Stimpson Preface Note on Terminology Introduction 1: Celibacy and the Social World 2: "Like a Boil with Nine Openings": Buddhist Constructions of the Body and Their South Asian Milieu 3: False Advertising Exposed: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Pali Hagiography 4: Lead Us Now into Temptation: Countering Samsaric Duplicity with Dharmic Deceptions 5: Seeing Through the Gendered "I": The Nun's Story Conclusion Appendix: The Post-Asokan Milieu Notes Selected Bibliography Index |
| ISBN | 9780226900544 (pbk); 9780226900537 |
| 點閱次數 | 452 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.10.22 |
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