A01=Liz Wilson
Author_Liz Wilson
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226900544
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1996
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of Buddhist monks, women's bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after death) served as a central object for meditation, inspiring spiritual growth through sexual abstention and repulsion in the immediate world. Taking up a set of universal concerns connected with the representation of women, Wilson displays the pervasiveness of an drocentrism in Buddhist literature and practice.
