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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451072203321

Autore

Ray Reginald A

Titolo

Buddhist Saints in India [[electronic resource] ] : A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

ISBN

1-280-83427-7

0-19-802363-4

0-19-535061-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (527 p.)

Disciplina

294.3

294.361

Soggetti

Buddhism -- History

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Rules

Buddhist saints -- India -- Biography

Buddhist saints

Religious life -- Buddhism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Conventions; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Buddhist Saints and the Two-Tiered Model of Buddhism; 2. Buddha Śāakyamuni as a Saint; 3. Saints of the Theragāthā and Therīgāthā4. Some Orthodox Saints in Buddhism; 5. Saints Criticized and Condemned; 6. Cults of Arhants; 7. The Solitary Saint, the Pratyekabuddha; 8. Bodhisattva Saints of the Forest in Mahāyāna Sutras; 9. Ascetic Traditions of Buddhist Saints; 10. The Buddhist Saints and the Stupa; 11. The Cult of Saints and Buddhist Doctrines of Absence and Presence; 12. The Buddhist Saints and the Process of Monasticization

Conclusion: Toward a Threefold Model of BuddhismBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The issue of saints is a difficult and complicated problem in Buddhology. In this magisterial work, Ray offers the first comprehensive examination of the figure of the Buddhist saint in a wide range of Indian Buddhist evidence. Drawing on an extensive



variety of sources, Ray seeks to identify the ""classical type"" of the Buddhist saint, as it provides the presupposition for, and informs, the different major Buddhist saintly types and subtypes. Discussing the nature, dynamics, and history of Buddhist hagiography, he surveys the ascetic codes, conventions and traditions of Buddhist saints, and

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345112703321

Autore

Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri

Titolo

Changing differences : women and the shaping of American foreign policy, 1917-1994 / / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8135-5563-9

0-585-02361-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 275 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - United States - History - 20th century

Women diplomats - United States - History - 20th century

Women - History - Political activity - 20th century - United States

Women diplomats - History - 20th century - United States

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States - General

History

United States Foreign relations 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. A Momentary Silence: The Survival of Gender Distinction in World War I -- 3. From Peace to Prices in the Tariff Decade -- 4. Presidential Recognition of the Female Vote, 1932 -- 5. Dorothy Detzer and the Merchants of Death -- 6. A Tale of Two Women: Harriet Elliott, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Changing Differences -- 7. Margaret Chase Smith and the Female Quest for Security -- 8. Bella Abzug: Signpost to the Future -- 9. The Myth of the Iron Lady: An



International Comparison -- 10. American Women and Contemporary Foreign Policy -- 11. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

There are more than fifty women in the United States Congress and nearly one-fourth of foreign service posts are held by women. Nevertheless, the United States has yet to entrust a senior foreign policy job, outside of the United Nations, to a woman. Beneath these statistics lurk central myths that Jeffreys-Jones cogently identifies and describes: the "Iron Lady"--Too masculine; the "lover of peace" - too "pink"; the weak or the promiscuous. These are to name only a few. With an eye to the feminist foreign policy leaders of the future, the author traces the successes and failures of collectivities such as Women Strike for Peace and individuals who were influential in international politics since World War I, including Alice Paul, Jane Addams, Jeannette Rankin, Dorothy Detzer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Bella Abzug, Margaret Thatcher, and many others.

These women often found ways to employ the myths to their own and to their country's benefit, and more recently have had the freedom to defy the stereotypes altogether.