The red thread : Buddhist approaches to sexuality

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The red thread : Buddhist approaches to sexuality

Bernard Faure

Princeton University Press, c1998

  • : cloth
  • : pbk.

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Sexualités bouddhiques

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780691059976

内容説明

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.

目次

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
巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780691059983

内容説明

In this study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Sakyamuni, to the premodern age. The 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. Mythological as well as legal sources are also used. The dialectics inherent in Mahayana Buddhism, in particular in the Tantric and Chan/Zen traditions, seemed to allow for greater laxity and even encouraged breaking of taboos.

目次

Introduction The Two Roads Buddhist Sexualities Ch. 1 The Hermeneutics of Desire Protean Desire The Buddhist Economy of Desire Ascetic Lust The Trend Reversal The Ambivalent Body Ch. 2 Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline Law, Order, and Libido Sexual Offenses The Rise of Mahayana Precepts Ch. 3 The Ideology of Transgression The Rule of Antinomianism Crazy Cloud Transgression - Sublime or Sublimated? Ritual Infractions Feminine Transgression Ch. 4 Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism The Demonic Priest The Juridical Background Nyobon Order or Freedom Ch. 5 Buddhist Homosexualities The New Sodom The Social and Cultural Context(s) The Quest for Origins Ch. 6 Boys to Men The Literary Tradition of the Chigo The "Divine Child" Mystique Head or Tail Afterthoughts Glossary Bibliography Index

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