Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Women in Culture and Society)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0226900541
ISBN 13
9780226900544
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
Pages
258 pages
Subject
Women Religious aspects Buddhism. Women in Buddhism. Buddhism.
Abstract
Introduction -- Celibacy and the social world -- "Like a boil with nine openings": Buddhist constructions of the body and their south Asian milieu -- Fale advertising exposed: horrific figurations of the feminine in Pāli hagiography -- Lead us now into temptation: countering Samsāric duplicity with Dharmic deceptions -- Seeing through the gendered "I": the nun's story.
Description
xv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Biblio Notes
33897444
Number of Copies
1
