Charming Cadavers : Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature Paperback / softback
by Liz Wilson
Part of the Women in Culture & Society Series WCS series
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1996
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- ISBN:9780226900544
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1996
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- ISBN:9780226900544
