Wilson Family in Buddhism

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4754-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A wide-ranging exploration of Buddhism and family in Asia--from biological families to families created in monasteries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Liz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Family and the Construction of Religious Communities
Liz Wilson

Part I. Historical Families, Imagined Families

2. Serving the Emperor by Serving the Buddha: Imperial Buddhist Monks and Nuns and Abbots, Abbesses, and Adoptees in Early Modern Japan
Gina Cogan

3. The Tantric Family Romance: Sex and the Construction of Social Identity in Tantric Buddhist Ritual
David Gray

4. Bone and Heart Sons: Biological and Imagined Kin in the Creation of Family Lineage in Tibetan Buddhism
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa

5. Families Matter: Ambiguous Attitudes toward Child Ordination in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Jeffrey Samuels

Part II. Parents and Children

6. The Passion of Mulian’s Mother: Narrative Blood and Maternal Sacrifices in Chinese Buddhism
Alan Cole

7. Maya’s Disappearing Act: Motherhood in Early Buddhist Literature
Vanessa R. Sasson

8. Mother as Character Coach: Maternal Agency in the Birth of Sivali
Liz Wilson

Part III. Wives and Husbands

9. Yasodhara in the Buddhist Imagination: Three Portraits Spanning the Centuries
Ranjini Obeyesekere

10. Evangelizing the Happily Married Man through Low Talk: On Sexual and Scatological Language in the Buddhist Tale of Nanda
Amy Paris Langenberg

11. Runaway Brides: Tensions Surrounding Marital Expectations in the Avadanasataka
Phillip Green

12. The Priesthood as a Family Trade: Reconsidering Monastic Marriage in Premodern Japan
Lori Meeks

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.