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The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality(Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)

The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality(Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)


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Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The author's anthropological approach uncovers the inherent discrepancies between the normative teachings of Buddhism and what its followers practice. Framing his discussion on some of the most prominent Western thinkers of sexuality--Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault--Faure draws from different reservoirs of writings, such as the orthodox and heterodox "doctrines" of Buddhism, and its monastic codes. Virtually untapped mythological as well as legal sources are also used. The dialectics inherent in Mahvyvna Buddhism, in particular in the Tantric and Chan/Zen traditions, seemed to allow for greater laxity and even encouraged breaking of taboos. Faure also offers a history of Buddhist monastic life, which has been buffeted by anticlerical attitudes, and by attempts to regulate sexual behavior from both within and beyond the monastery.In two chapters devoted to Buddhist homosexuality, he examines the way in which this sexual behavior was simultaneously condemned and idealized in medieval Japan.This book will appeal especially to those interested in the cultural history of Buddhism and in premodern Japanese culture. But the story of how one of the world's oldest religions has faced one of life's greatest problems makes fascinating reading for all.

Table of Contents:
Introduction3The Two Roads4Buddhist Sexualities8Ch. 1The Hermeneutics of Desire15Protean Desire16The Buddhist Economy of Desire23Ascetic Lust29The Trend Reversal39The Ambivalent Body54Ch. 2Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline64Law, Order, and Libido65Sexual Offenses74The Rise of Mahayana Precepts89Ch. 3The Ideology of Transgression98The Rule of Antinomianism100Crazy Cloud111Transgression - Sublime or Sublimated?118Ritual Infractions124Feminine Transgression129Ch. 4Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes144Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism145The Demonic Priest161The Juridical Background172Nyobon181Order or Freedom197Ch. 5Buddhist Homosexualities207The New Sodom207The Social and Cultural Context(s)227The Quest for Origins233Ch. 6Boys to Men241The Literary Tradition of the Chigo241The "Divine Child" Mystique249Head or Tail265Afterthoughts279Glossary289Bibliography293Index333

About the Author :
Bernard Faure is Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Immediacy, Chan Insights and Oversights, and Visions of Power (all from Princeton University Press).

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"Although many scholars strive to locate their research within the study of Chinese religions as a whole, and thus to incorporate perspectives, insights, and approaches derived from the fields of popular religious studies and poststructuralist anthropology, there is as yet only one scholar who has adopted this breadth of vision as the fundamental characteristic of his intellectual agenda. This is of course Bernard Faure."--The Journal of Asian Studies


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  • ISBN-13: 9780691059976
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 324
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality
  • Width: 197 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0691059977
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
  • Weight: 562 gr


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