The Red Thread : : Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality / / Bernard Faure.
Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age....
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 1998 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Hermeneutics of Desire
- Chapter 2. Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline
- Chapter 3. The Ideology of Transgression
- Chapter 4. Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes
- Chapter 5. Buddhist Homosexualities
- Chapter 6. Boys to Men
- Afterthoughts
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index