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The Sūtra on Transforming the Female Form: Unpacking an Early Medieval Chinese Buddhist Text |
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Balkwill, Stephanie (著)
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Journal of Chinese Religions=中國宗教研究集刊
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| Volume | v.44 n.2 |
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| Date | 2016.11 |
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| Pages | 127 - 148 |
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| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
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https://www.press.jhu.edu/
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| Location | Baltimore, MD, US [巴爾的摩, 馬里蘭州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Sūtras on Transforming the Female Form; Chinese Buddhism; Six Dynasties; Indigenous Chinese Texts; sex change; Mahāyāna |
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| Abstract | In this article I seek to show that T564, the Sūtra on Transforming the Female Form (Zhuan nüshen jing 轉女身經), is not only a composite text which integrates narrative and doctrinal material from a number of other sūtras, but also that it was likely written in early medieval China. The identification of this text as a Chinese indigenous creation is important for the text has enjoyed a long and rich transmission history across East Asia, and also because it contains a new argument for why a woman needs to become a man in order to become a Buddha. By analyzing and presenting the text in such a way, I wish to reveal the important place that composite, indigenous, and other “spurious” texts have held in the development of radically new doctrines within the Mahāyāna and thus argue for their further inclusion in modern studies of the tradition |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 127
The Life of the Sūtra on Transforming the Female Form 130
On the Composite Nature of the Text 133
Apocryphal Accretions and an Expanded Argument for Sex Change 138
Conclusion: On the Importance of Chinese Textual Creations 144
Acknowledgements 146
Bibliography 146
Notes on Contributor 148 |
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| ISSN | 0737769X (P); 20508999 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/0737769X.2016.1157428 |
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| Hits | 93 |
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| Created date | 2023.06.27 |
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| Modified date | 2023.07.20 |
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