Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender: First EditionJose Ignacio Cabezon 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 | 3 |
The Female Mendicant in Buddhist Sri Lankā | 37 |
Buddhist Women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian | 91 |
The Rhetoric of Gender in Buddhist Texts | 109 |
The Rhetoric | 137 |
The Gender Symbolism of Kuanyin Bodhisattva | 159 |
GenderBased Imagery | 181 |
Homosexuality as Seen in Indian Buddhist Texts | 203 |
Kūkai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese Buddhism | 215 |
Contributors | 231 |
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Abhidharmakośa abortion acolyte Ambedkar androcentrism appears Asian attitude become bhikkhu bhikkhunī bodhisattva broken connection Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist texts Buddhist tradition canon Cattanār century Ch'an chang-fu chapter Chinese compassion concepts contemporary context culture dasa sil mātāvo death Dharma Dharmapāla discussion early Buddhist enlightenment essay example existence female beauty female renunciants feminine goddess heroine Hindu homosexuality human Ibid Indian Japan Japanese Kōbō Daishi Kuan-yin Bodhisattva Kūkai laity Lankā legend liberation literature Lotus Sūtra Mahāyāna male love Manimēkalai masculine means metaphor misogyny mizuko kuyō monastic monks mother neytal nurturance order of nuns ordination pandaka passage path Perfection of Wisdom poem Prajñāpāramitā priests religious rhetoric Richman ritual robes role samgha Sanghamittā Sanskrit sāsana scene sexual social society soteriological soteriological inclusiveness spiritual story Studies symbols ta-chang-fu Ta-hui Tamil tantric temple Ten Precepts Theravāda translation University Press upāsikā Utayakumaran Vajrayāna Vinaya woman Yüan-wu