Buddhism, sexuality, and gender
By: edited by José Ignacio Cabezón
Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica series -- no. 113; Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica -- no. 113.
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Sex; Buddhism; Women; Doctrines
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Attitudes toward women and the feminine in early Buddhism / Alan Sponberg; title: The female mendicant in Buddhist Srī Laṅkā / Tessa Bartholomeusz; title: Buddhism and abortion in contemporary Japan : Mizuko Kuyō and the confrontation with death / Bardwell Smith; title: Buddhist women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian Conversion Movement / Eleanor Zelliot; title: Gender andpersuasion : the portrayal of beauty, anguish, and nurturance in an account of a Tamil nun / Paula Richman; title: Lin-chi (Rinzai) Chʻan and gender : the rhetoric of equality and the rhetoric of heroism / Miriam L. Levering; title: The gender symbolism of Kuan-yin Bodhisattva / Barbara E. Reed; title: Mother wisdom, father love : gender-based imagery in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought / José Ignacio Cabezón; title: Homosexuality as seen in Indian Buddhist texts / Leonard Zwilling; title: Kūkai and the tradition of male love in Japanese Buddhism / Paul Gordon Schalow.