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A Bull of a Man : Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (335 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674054431
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Bull of a ManDDC classification:
  • 294.3/37
LOC classification:
  • BQ4570
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Ultimate Man -- 2. A Manly Monk -- 3. Sex and the Single Monk -- 4. The Problem with Bodies -- 5. The Company of Men -- 6. The Greater Men of the Greater Vehicle -- 7. Adepts and Sorcerers -- 8. Conclusion: Oversights and Insights -- Appendix 1: The Major and Minor Physical Characteristics of a Great Man -- Appendix 2: Epithets of the Buddha -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Ultimate Man -- 2. A Manly Monk -- 3. Sex and the Single Monk -- 4. The Problem with Bodies -- 5. The Company of Men -- 6. The Greater Men of the Greater Vehicle -- 7. Adepts and Sorcerers -- 8. Conclusion: Oversights and Insights -- Appendix 1: The Major and Minor Physical Characteristics of a Great Man -- Appendix 2: Epithets of the Buddha -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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