Title: Mothers and sons in Chinese Buddhism
First published: 1998
Description: Taking a new approach to the history of Buddhism, this book describes how Buddhist authors reorganized family values in China. Close readings of more than twenty Buddhist texts written in China from the fifth to the thirteenth century demonstrate that Buddhist authors crafted new models for family reproduction based on a mother-son style of filial piety, in contrast to the traditional father-son model.

The author draws on modern critical and psychoanalytic perspectives to argue that by reorienting family values, the Buddhists succeeded in bridging the gap between the private world of the Chinese family and the public presence of monastic Buddhism, thereby working Buddhism into Chinese society on several levels: sexual, familial, monetary, and political.
Subjects: Buddhism, Mother and child, Parent and child, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Parent and child, 11.93 Buddhism, Buddhismus, Bouddhisme, Aspect religieux, Mutter, Moeder-zoon-relaties, Mères et enfants, Sohn, Coutumes et pratiques, Boeddhisme, Parents et enfants
Places: China
LC classification: BQ5440 .C65 1998