TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powers,John
TI  - A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism
SN  - 9780674054431
AV  - BQ4570 
U1  - 294.3/37 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Masculinity-Religious aspects-Buddhism
KW  - Sex role-Religious aspects-Buddhism
KW  - Buddhist literature-India-History and criticism
KW  - Buddhism-Social aspects-India-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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