Record Nr.

UNINA9910821337103321

Autore

Young Serinity

Titolo

Courtesans and tantric consorts : sexualities in Buddhist narrative, iconography and ritual / / Serinity Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa


New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

0-203-49412-1

1-280-07730-1

1-135-96426-2

0-203-60278-1

1-135-96427-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

294.3/082

Soggetti

Women in the Tripitaka

Women in Buddhism - India

Buddhist art and symbolism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; INTRODUCTION; PART I Life of the Buddha; CHAPTER 1 REJECTION AND RECONCILIATION; REJECTION: THE PRINCE IN THE WOMEN'S QUARTERS; RECONCILIATION: THE ASCETIC AND THE REQUISITE OF ENLIGHTENMENT; PART II Parents and Procreation; CHAPTER 2 MOTHERS AND SONS; QUEEN MĀYĀ; Conception and Birth Images; Trāyastrimśa Heaven; ŚYĀMA JĀTAKA; SONS SAVING MOTHERS; QUEEN CĀMA; MOTHERS AND COMPASSION

CHAPTER 3 MEDICAL EXCURSUSCHAPTER 4 FATHERS AND HEIRS; KING ŚUDDHODANA; BUDDHA AS FATHER; TIBET; Male Lineage; PART III Sexualities; CHAPTER 5 WIVES AND HUSBANDS; THE WIVES OF THE BUDDHA; Jātaka Wives; Dreams of Buddha's Wives; THE SAUNDARĀNANDA; POSITIVE IMAGES OF WIVES; CHAPTER 6 SOUTH ASIAN COURTESANS; SEXUAL CATEGORIES; DEVADĀSĪS; MALE COURTESANS; TRANSITIONS; CHAPTER 7 COURTESANS IN BUDDHIST

LITERATURE; ŚYĀMĀ JĀTAKA; AMRAPĀLĪ; THE MANIMEKHALAÏ; THE DECEPTION OF THE BODY; CHAPTER 8 TANTRIC CONSORTS: INTRODUCTION; IMAGES AND PRACTICES; MAHĀSIDDHAS; CHAPTER 9 TANTRIC CONSORTS: TIBET

PADMASAMBHAVAYESHE TSOGYEL AND MANDĀRAVĀ; TERTONS; YID THOGMA; MILAREPA; MACHIG LAPDRON; CHAPTER 10 THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN; NANGSA'S STORY; CHAPTER 11 WOMEN, MEN, AND IMPURITY; FEMALE SEXUALITY AND POLLUTION; THE INSTABILITY OF MASCULINITY; CHAPTER 12 SEX CHANGE; FEMALE TO MALE STORIES; MALE TO FEMALE STORIES; KARMA; CHAPTER 13 OTHER LANDS/OTHER REALITIES; THE BUDDHIST UNIVERSE; LANDS OF WOMEN; Hells for Women; PURE LANDS; Without Women; With Women; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory, stories. In Courtesans and Tantric Consorts, Serinity Young takes the reader on a journey through more than 2000 years of biographical writings, iconographic depictions, and ritual practices revealing Buddhism's deep struggles with gender.Juxtaposing empowering images of women with thei