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Brides of the Buddha: Nuns' Stories from the Avadānaśataka
Author Muldoon-Hules, Karen (著)
Date2017.06
Pages240
PublisherLexington Books
Publisher Url https://rowman.com/
LocationNew York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteKaren Muldoon-Hules is lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department and the Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Los Angeles.
AbstractFor young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study uses ten stories from the Avadānaśataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns’ hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.
Table of contentsChapter 1: Buddhist Women in Early India
Chapter 2: Marriage and Meaning in Late Vedic and Classical Hinduism
Chapter 3: Marriage and Meaning in Indian Buddhism
Chapter 4: How Should a Daughter Renounce?
Chapter 5: Suprabhā, Kāśisundarī, and the Indic Svayaṃvara
Chapter 6: Other Women, Other Walks of Life
Chapter 7: Some Conclusions and Observations
Appendix 1: Dating the Avadānaśataka
Appendix 2: Sectarian Affiliation
ISBN9781498511452 (hc); 9781498511469 (eb)
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