Liz Wilson is Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University in Ohio. She is the editor of The Living and the Dead: Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature.
摘要
The Buddha left his home and family and enjoined his followers to go forth and "become homeless." With a traditionally celibate clergy, Asian Buddhism is often regarded as a world-renouncing religion inimical to family life. This edited volume counters this view, showing how Asian Buddhists in a wide range of historical and geographical circumstances relate as kin to their biological families and to the religious families they join. Using contemporary and historical case studies as well as textual examples, contributors explore how Asian Buddhists invoke family ties in the intentional communities they create and use them to establish religious authority and guard religious privilege. The language of family and lineage emerges as central to a variety of South and East Asian Buddhist contexts. With an interdisciplinary, Pan-Asian approach, Family in Buddhism challenges received wisdom in religious studies and offers new ways to think about family and society.
目次
Acknowledgments vii - viii
1 Introduction 1 - 18 Part I Historical Families,Imagined Families 2 Serving the Emperor by Serving the Buddha 21 - 42 3 The Tantric Family Romance 43 - 66 4 Bone and Heart Sons 67 - 88 5 Families Matter 89 - 116 Part II Parents and Children 6 The Passion of Mulian’s Mother 119 - 146 7 Māyā’s Disappearing Act 147 - 168 8 Mother as Character Coach 169 - 186 Part III Wives and Husbands read more 9 Yasodharā in the Buddhist Imagination 189 - 204 10 Evangelizing the Happily Married Man through Low Talk 205 - 236 11 Runaway Brides 237 - 252 12 The Priesthood as a Family Trade 253 - 276
Contributors 277 - 280 Index 281 - 290 Back Cover BC - BC
