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Courtesans and Tantric Consorts Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography and Ritual

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ISBN-10: 0203494121

ISBN-13: 9780203494127

Edition: 2004

Authors: Serinity Young

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List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Pages: 298
Language: English

Laila Williamson is senior scientific assistant and Serinity Young is a research associate, both in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History. Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Harvard Divinity School.

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Life of the Buddha
Rejection and Reconciliation
Rejection: The Prince in the Women's Quarters
Reconciliation: The Ascetic and the Requisite of Enlightenment
Parents and Procreation
Mothers and SonsQueen Maya
Conception and Birth Images
Trayastrimsa Heaven
Syama Jataka
Sons Saving Mothers
Queen Cama
Mothers and Compassion
Medical Excursus
Fathers and Heirs
King Suddhodana
Buddha as Father
Tibet
Male Lineage
Sexualities
Wives and Husbands
The Wives of the Buddha
Jataka Wives
Dreams of Buddha's Wives
The Saundarananda
Positive Images of Wives
South Asian Courtesans
Sexual Categories
Devadasis
Male Courtesans
Transitions
Courtesans in Buddhist Literature
Syama Jataka
Amrapali
Manimekhala�
The Deception of the Body
Tantric Consorts: Introduction Images and Practices
Mahasiddhas
Tantric Consorts: Tibet
Padmasambhava
Yeshe Tsogyel and Mandarava
TertonsYid Thogma
Milarepa
Machig Lapdron
The Traffic in Women
Nangsa's Story
Women, Men, and Impurity
Female Sexuality and Pollution
The Instability of Masculinity
Sex Changes
Female to Male Stories
Male to Female Stories
Karma
Other Lands/Other Realities
The Buddhist Universe
Lands of Women
Hells for Women
Pure Lands
Without Women
With Women
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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