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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Liz Wilson EAN: 9780226900544 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 23 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-12-01 CITY: GENRE: RELIGION / Buddhism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 15 cm SPINE:

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      Gender studies: women and girls, Buddhism, Theology

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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Liz Wilson EAN: 9780226900544 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 23 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-12-01 CITY: GENRE: RELIGION / Buddhism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 15 cm SPINE:

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      Gender studies: women and girls, Buddhism, Theology

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