A Bull of a Man
Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism
Published on 19. October 2009
336 pages
978-0-674-05443-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, Powers adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Adult education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05443-1 (9780674054431)
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06/2009
Harvard University Press
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Person
John Powers is Professor in Asian Studies at the College of the Asia Pacific, The Australian National University.
Content
Contents Preface ix 1. The Ultimate Man 1 2. A Manly Monk 00 3. Sex and the Single Monk 00 4. The Problem with Bodies 000 5. The Company of Men 000 6. The Greater Men of the Greater Vehicle 000 7. Adepts and Sorcerers 000 8. Conclusion 000 Appendix 1: The Major and Minor Physical Characteristics of a Great Man 000 Appendix 2: Epithets of the Buddha 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
