Buddhism, Sexuality, and GenderJos? Ignacio Cabez?n This book explores historical, textual, and social questions relating to the position and experience of women and gay people in the Buddhist world from India and Tibet to Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. It focuses on four key areas: Buddhist history, contemporary culture, Buddhist symbols, and homosexuality, and it covers Buddhism's entire history, from its origins to the present day. The result of original and innovative research, the author offers new perspectives on the history of the attitudes toward, and of the self-perception of, women in both ancient and modern Buddhist societies. He explores key social issues such as abortion, he examines the use of rhetoric and symbols in Buddhist texts and cultures, and he discusses the neglected subject of Buddhism and homosexuality. |
Contents
Attitudes toward Women and the Feminine in Early Buddhism | 3 |
The Female Mendicant in Buddhist Sri Lanka | 37 |
Buddhism and Abortion in Contemporary Japan Mizuko Kuyo and the Confrontation with Death | 65 |
Buddhist Women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian Conversion Movement | 91 |
Gender and Persuasion The Portrayal of Beauty Anguish and Nurturance in an Account of a Tamil Nun | 111 |
Linchi Rinzai Chan and Gender The Rhetoric of Equality and the Rhetoric of Heroism | 137 |
The Gender Symbolism of Kuanyin Bodhisattva | 159 |
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