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Charming cadavers : horrific figurations of the feminine in Indian Buddhist hagiographic literature / Liz Wilson.
Van Pelt Library BQ4570.W6 W55 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Liz.
- Series:
- Women in culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Women.
- Women in Buddhism.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL ; London : University of Chicago Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Foreword Catharine R. Stimpson Preface Note on Terminology Introduction 1: Celibacy and the Social World 2: "Like a Boil with Nine Openings": Buddhist Constructions of the Body and Their South Asian Milieu 3: False Advertising Exposed: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Pali Hagiography 4: Lead Us Now into Temptation: Countering Samsaric Duplicity with Dharmic Deceptions 5: Seeing Through the Gendered "I": The Nun's Story Conclusion Appendix: The Post-Asokan Milieu Notes Selected Bibliography Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245] -254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226900533
- 0226900541
- OCLC:
- 33897444
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