Aspects of the female in Indian culture
Subtitle: proceedings of the symposium in Marburg, Germany, July 7-8, 2000
By: edited by Ulrike Roesler and Jayandra Soni.
Contributors: Roesler, Ulrike.; Soni, Jayandra.
Series: Indica et Tibetica -- Bd. 44; Arbeitsmaterialien zur Religionsgeschichte -- Bd. 17
Publisher: Indica et Tibetica
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Marburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Indic literature -- India -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Women in literature -- Congresses.; Buddhist literature -- India -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Jaina literature -- India -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Two female Bodhisattvas in flesh and blood / Dragomir Dimitrov; title: Obstacles to enlightenment: male perspectives on women in the poetic literature of the Buddhists / Michael Hahn; title: On the courtesan in Buddhist literature with selected examples from Kṣemendras's Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā / Signe Kirde; title: She of whom one speaks in Jaina exemplary literature / Luitgard Soni; title: The alluring ladylove / Fabrizia Baldissera; title: The heroine in lyrical and rhetorical Indian literature / Daniela Rossella; title: Female characters and female audiences: remarks on female roles in the Indian dramaturgic tradition / Roland Steiner; title: Vadhūdharmacandrikā: 'moonlight of female duties' / Ute Hüsken; title: Towards a new Hindu woman / Ulrike Stark.