Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Women in Culture & Society Series WCS)
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Liz Wilson (Author)
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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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- Contributor: Liz Wilson
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226900537
- Number of Pages: 276
- Packaged Dimensions: 15x23x2mm
- Packaged Weight: 510
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 1996-11-26
- Series: Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
- Binding: Hardback
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