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The red thread : Buddhist approaches to sexuality / Bernard Faure.

By: Language: English Original language: French Series: Princeton paperbacksPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.Description: vi, 338 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0691059985 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780691059983 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0691059977 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780691059976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Sexualités bouddhiques. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3/37857 21
LOC classification:
  • BQ4570.S48 F3813 1998
Contents:
The Two Roads -- Buddhist Sexualities -- Ch. 1. The Hermeneutics of Desire. Protean Desire. The Buddhist Economy of Desire. Ascetic Lust. The Trend Reversal. The Ambivalent Body -- Ch. 2. Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline. Law, Order, and Libido. Sexual Offenses. The Rise of Mahayana Precepts -- Ch. 3. The Ideology of Transgression. The Rule of Antinomianism. Crazy Cloud. Transgression -- Sublime or Sublimated? Ritual Infractions. Feminine Transgression -- Ch. 4. Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes. Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism. The Demonic Priest. The Juridical Background. Nyobon. Order or Freedom -- Ch. 5. Buddhist Homosexualities. The New Sodom. The Social and Cultural Context(s). The Quest for Origins -- Ch. 6. Boys to Men. The Literary Tradition of the Chigo. The "Divine Child" Mystique. Head or Tail.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-331) and index.

The Two Roads -- Buddhist Sexualities -- Ch. 1. The Hermeneutics of Desire. Protean Desire. The Buddhist Economy of Desire. Ascetic Lust. The Trend Reversal. The Ambivalent Body -- Ch. 2. Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline. Law, Order, and Libido. Sexual Offenses. The Rise of Mahayana Precepts -- Ch. 3. The Ideology of Transgression. The Rule of Antinomianism. Crazy Cloud. Transgression -- Sublime or Sublimated? Ritual Infractions. Feminine Transgression -- Ch. 4. Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes. Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism. The Demonic Priest. The Juridical Background. Nyobon. Order or Freedom -- Ch. 5. Buddhist Homosexualities. The New Sodom. The Social and Cultural Context(s). The Quest for Origins -- Ch. 6. Boys to Men. The Literary Tradition of the Chigo. The "Divine Child" Mystique. Head or Tail.

Translation of Sexualités Bouddhiques.

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