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100 1 _aFaure, Bernard.
245 1 4 _aThe power of denial
_h[electronic resource] :
_bBuddhism, purity, and gender /
_cBernard Faure.
260 _aPrinceton, N.J. :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_cc2003.
300 _aix, 466 p. ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aBuddhisms
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [401]-458) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: "Soaring and settling" : too soon? -- The cultural approach -- Gender revisited -- Gendering Buddhism -- Pt.1 Buddhism and women. The second order. The evolution of the female sangha -- The female order in Japan -- The issue of ordination -- Sociological context(s) -- Sorely missed -- Nunhood and feminism -- The rhetoric of subordination. A theodicy of disprivilege -- The five obstacles and the three dependences -- A case of blood poisoning -- Drinking from the blood bowl -- The "facts" of life -- The red and the white -- The rhetoric of salvation. The legend of the naga-girl -- Becoming male -- Interpretative divergences -- Amida's vow and its implications -- A feminine topos -- The rhetoric of equality. Gender equality in Mahayana -- Gender equality in Vajrayana -- Chan/Zen egalitarianism -- Pt.2 Imagining Buddhist women. Monks, mothers, and motherhood. Bad mothers -- The ambivalent mother -- Mater dolorosa -- The forsaken mother -- The changing image of motherhood -- Varieties of motherly experience -- Mad mothers -- The law of alliance -- Conflicting images. Women in the life of the Buddha -- Queens, empresses, and other impressive ladies -- Eminent nuns -- Femmes fatales -- Of women and jewels -- Pt.3 Women against Buddhism. Crossing the line. The utopian topos -- Stopped in their tracks -- Kukai's mother -- The Kekkai stone -- Conflicting interpretations -- The symbolic reading of transgression -- The kekkai and the logic of muen -- Women on the move. The "nuns of Kumano" -- What's in a name -- Down by the river -- The monk and the bayadere -- The discourteous courtesan -- Paradigms -- The power of women. The myth of Tamayorihime -- The Miko and the monk -- Women on the edge -- Women, dragons, and snakes.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bBoulder, Colo. :
_cNetLibrary,
_d2009.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
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650 0 _aWomen
_xReligious aspects
_xBuddhism.
650 0 _aSex
_xReligious aspects
_xBuddhism.
650 0 _aBuddhism
_xDoctrines.
650 1 7 _aBoeddhisme.
_2gtt
650 1 7 _aSekseverschillen.
_2gtt
650 6 _aFemmes
_xAspect religieux
_xBouddhisme.
650 6 _aSexualité
_xAspect religieux
_xBouddhisme.
650 6 _aBouddhisme
_xDoctrines.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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776 1 _cOriginal
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830 0 _aBuddhisms.
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