Faure The Red Thread

Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2260-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 324 Seiten

Reihe: Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Faure, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 3

The Two Roads 4

Buddhist Sexualities 8

Ch. 1 The Hermeneutics of Desire 15

Protean Desire 16

The Buddhist Economy of Desire 23

Ascetic Lust 29

The Trend Reversal 39

The Ambivalent Body 54

Ch. 2 Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline 64

Law, Order, and Libido 65

Sexual Offenses 74

The Rise of Mahayana Precepts 89

Ch. 3 The Ideology of Transgression 98

The Rule of Antinomianism 100

Crazy Cloud 111

Transgression - Sublime or Sublimated? 118

Ritual Infractions 124

Feminine Transgression 129

Ch. 4 Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes 144

Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism 145

The Demonic Priest 161

The Juridical Background 172

Nyobon 181

Order or Freedom 197

Ch. 5 Buddhist Homosexualities 207

The New Sodom 207

The Social and Cultural Context(s) 227

The Quest for Origins 233

Ch. 6 Boys to Men 241

The Literary Tradition of the Chigo 241

The "Divine Child" Mystique 249

Head or Tail 265

Afterthoughts 279

Glossary 289

Bibliography 293

Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Faure is Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Immediacy, Chan Insights and Oversights, and Visions of Power (all from Princeton University Press).