Charming Cadavers Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature

Name: Charming Cadavers Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature
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ISBN: 9780226900544

ISBN-10: 0226900541

ISBN-13: 9780226900544

Edition: 1996

Authors: Liz Wilson, Catharine R. Stimpson

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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…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Note on Terminology


Introduction



Celibacy and the Social World



"Like a Boil with Nine Openings": Buddhist Constructions of the Body and Their South Asian Milieu



False Advertising Exposed: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Pali Hagiography



Lead Us Now into Temptation: Countering Samsaric Duplicity with Dharmic Deceptions



Seeing Through the Gendered "I": The Nun's Story


Conclusion



The Post-Asokan Milieu


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index