Buddhist Masculinities / /

Buddhist Masculinities / / / ed. by Kevin Buckelew, Megan Bryson.

While early Buddhists hailed their religion's founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha's body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Berkwitz, Stephen C.,
Bryson, Megan,
Buckelew, Kevin,
Evans, Marcus,
Keeler, Ward,
Langenberg, Amy Paris,
Mendelson, Rebecca,
Scherer, Bee,
Shelton, Joshua Brallier,
Song, Geng,
Vendova, Dessislava,
HerausgeberIn:
Bryson, Megan,
Buckelew, Kevin,
:
Wongchalard, Natawan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 25 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Masculinities Beyond the Buddha
  • PART ONE: Masculine Models
  • One Middle Way Masculinity: The Bodhisattva Siddhārtha as a Renunciant in Early Buddhist Texts and Art
  • Two How Chan Masters Became "Great Men": Masculinity in Chinese Chan Buddhism
  • Three Men of Virtue: Reexamining the Bodhisattva King in Sri Lanka
  • PART TWO: Mighty Masters
  • Four The Siddha Who Tamed Tibet: Padmasambhava's Tantric Masculinity
  • Five Building a Nation on the Dharma Battlefield: Lay Zen Masculinities in Modern Japan
  • Six Macho Buddhism (Redux): Gender and Sexualities in the Diamond Way
  • PART THREE: Making Men
  • Seven Being a Man vs. Being a Monk: Alternative Versions of Burmese Buddhist Masculinity
  • Eight Hanuman, Heroes, and Buddhist Masculinity in Contemporary Thailand
  • Nine Buddhism and Afro-Asian Masculinities in The Man with the Iron Fists
  • PART FOUR: Breaking Boundaries
  • Ten The Afterlife of the Tang Monk: Buddhist Masculinity and the Image of Xuanzang in East Asia
  • Eleven Real Monks Don't Have Gṛhastha Sex: Revisiting Male Celibacy in Classical South Asian Buddhism
  • Appendix: Character Glossary
  • Contributors
  • Index

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