"Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconograhy, and Ritual," by Serinity Young Paperback: 298 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (February 21, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0415914833 ISBN-13: 978-0415914833
關鍵詞
BUDDHISM; NONFICTION
摘要
This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Buddhism and gender. It presents information and explores issues on this topic in new and innovative ways. It is also well researched and well written. Part of Young's innovation is her use of Buddhist art and iconography, which she takes as seriously as textual sources are usually taken in Buddhist studies. Many of her most interesting suggestions and conclusions result from the seriousness with which she takes Buddhist art as resource for understanding Buddhism more accurately and completely. The other foci are clear from her subtitle: narrative and ritual. There is much less attention to the canonical and philosophical texts of Buddhism that are so often invoked in studies of Buddhism and gender.
