José Ignacio Cabezón is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is the author of A Dose of Emptiness: An Annotated Translation of the sTong thun chen mo of mKhas grub dGe legs dpal bzang, also published by SUNY Press.
關鍵詞
Buddhist Aspects of Sex; Woman in Buddhism; Doctrines of Buddhism; Sexuality; Gender; Homosexuality
摘要
This book explores historical, textual, and social questions relating to the position and experience of women and gay people in the Buddhist world from India and Tibet to Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. It focuses on four key areas: Buddhist history, contemporary culture, Buddhist symbols, and homosexuality, and it covers Buddhism's entire history, from its origins to the present day. The result of original and innovative research, the author offers new perspectives on the history of the attitudes toward, and of the self-perception of, women in both ancient and modern Buddhist societies. He explores key social issues such as abortion, he examines the use of rhetoric and symbols in Buddhist texts and cultures, and he discusses the neglected subject of Buddhism and homosexuality.
目次
Attitudes toward women and the feminine in early Buddhism / Alan Sponberg The female mendicant in Buddhist Srī Laṅkā / Tessa Bartholomeusz Buddhism and abortion in contemporary Japan : Mizuko Kuyō and the confrontation with death / Bardwell Smith Buddhist women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian Conversion Movement / Eleanor Zelliot Gender andpersuasion : the portrayal of beauty, anguish, and nurturance in an account of a Tamil nun / Paula Richman Lin-chi (Rinzai) Chʻan and gender : the rhetoric of equality and the rhetoric of heroism / Miriam L. Levering The gender symbolism of Kuan-yin Bodhisattva / Barbara E. Reed Mother wisdom, father love : gender-based imagery in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought / José Ignacio Cabezón Homosexuality as seen in Indian Buddhist texts / Leonard Zwilling Kūkai and the tradition of male love in Japanese Buddhism / Paul Gordon Schalow
