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Beware the Crocodile: Female and Male Nature in Aśvaghoṣa’s Saundarananda
作者 Collett, Alice
出處題名 Religions of South Asia
卷期v.7 n.1-3 Tradition and the Reuse of Indic Texts
出版日期2013
頁次60 - 74
出版者Equinox Publishing Ltd.
出版者網址 https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/
出版地Sheffield, UK [謝菲爾德, 英國]
資料類型期刊論文=Journal Article
使用語言英文=English
關鍵詞Aśvaghoṣa; Buddhacarita; Buddhism; gender; Saundarananda
摘要In chapter eight of his Saundarananda, Aśvaghoṣa launches into one of the fiercest attacks on women that can be found in early Buddhist literature. He evokes animal imagery and symbolism to demonstrate a manipulative and (sexually) aggressive nature for women, which he juxtaposes with a comparably weak will for men. He utilises similes of entrapment whereby violent, aggressive and poisonous animals, birds or reptiles (women) ensnare weaker creatures (men). For example, women are ‘hordes of crocodiles in a river,’ hawks that prey on pheasants, or snakes, whilst men are deer escaping hunters, birds enmeshed in a net or elephants trying to avoid crocodile infested waters. Whilst Aśvaghoṣa’s account of the sleeping harem women in the Buddhacarita has been cited by scholars of Buddhism and gender as representative of negative conceptualisations of women in ancient Indian Buddhist literature, the account in the Saundarananda, which is a far worse indictment of women, has received less attention. In this article, I will discuss Aśvaghoṣa’s attack on women centring on his use of animal imagery to portray male and female nature. In so doing, a central aim of the article is to give ownership of the Saundarananda and Buddhacarita back to Aśvaghoṣa, whose accounts have previously been taken to be representative of views on women in early Buddhism. Through comparative analysis, whilst demonstrating the views of one male author, an ex-Brahmin poet, I will highlight these in direct contrast to other texts from early Indian Buddhism, which rarely present women in the same light. Finally, I will look at Aśvaghoṣa the author, and attempt to discern his own pre-occupations and predilections.
ISSN17512689 (P); 17512697 (E)
點閱次數136
建檔日期2016.12.23
更新日期2020.05.05










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