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| Subtle Bodies, Wrathful Deities and Men in Buddhist Tantric Traditions | ||
| 作者 | Child, Louise |
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| 出處題名 | Religions of South Asia |
| 卷期 | v.1 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2007 |
| 頁次 | 29 - 45 |
| 出版者 | Equinox Publishing Ltd. |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/ |
| 出版地 | Sheffield, UK [謝菲爾德, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; Durkheim; gender; magic; Mauss; 'subtle body'; Tantra; wrathful |
| 摘要 | Combining fearsome images, ‘magical’ rites of subjugation and challenging portrayals of sexuality, wrathful deities appear to epitomize all that makes tantric Buddhism distant from early Buddhism’s traditional orientations. On one level, this distance can be attributed to processes of incorporation of ‘demonic’ elements from other indigenous religious traditions. Drawing from the theoretical perspectives of Durkheim and Mauss, however, I will argue that it is precisely this motif of ‘incorporation’ that not only gives wrathful deities their distinctive potency, but also positions them at the centre of the ambivalence that is tantric Buddhism. While the tantric Siddha, in common with Mauss’s magician, incorporates bodily leavings and peripheral rites, he also, I suggest, absorbs and negotiates potentially poisonous emotional states such as terror and anger through the medium of the subtle body, thereby forming a model of masculinity that is both a defining force within tantric Buddhism and suggestive of further investigation within anthropological studies of male cultures more broadly. |
| 目次 | Introduction 29 The Evolution Of The Wrathful Deity In Indian Tantric Buddhism 30 Magic, Conquest and Subjugation 33 Gender And The Subtle Body 36 Conclusion 42 References 43 |
| ISSN | 17512689 (P); 17512697 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 111 |
| 建檔日期 | 2017.01.05 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.05.04 |
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