Buddhism, sexuality, and gender / edited by Jos�e Ignacio Cabez�on. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, �1992. - 1 online resource (xix, 241 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Attitudes toward women and the feminine in early Buddhism / Alan Sponberg -- The female mendicant in Buddhist Sr�i La�nk�a / Tessa Bartholomeusz -- Buddhism and abortion in contemporary Japan : Mizuko Kuy�o 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) Ch�an 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 Mah�ay�ana Buddhist thought / Jos�e Ignacio Cabez�on -- Homosexuality as seen in Indian Buddhist texts / Leonard Zwilling -- K�ukai and the tradition of male love in Japanese Buddhism / Paul Gordon Schalow.

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Sex--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Women--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Buddhism--Doctrines.
RELIGION--Buddhism--General.
Buddhism--Doctrines.
Sex--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Women--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Boeddhisme.
Sekserol.
Buddhismus
Sexualit�at
Aufsatzsammlung
Femmes et religion--Asie.
Femmes dans le bouddhisme.
Bouddhisme--Doctrines.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

BQ4570.S48 / B83 1992eb

294.3/378344