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Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual Paperback - 2004
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- Title Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual
- Author Serinity Young
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 298
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, New York/London
- Date 2004-02
- ISBN 9780415914833 / 0415914833
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.36 x 0.73 in (22.86 x 16.15 x 1.85 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Gautama Buddha, Gautama Buddha - Relations with women
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003022472
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.308
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The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory, stories. In Courtesans and Tantric Consorts, Serinity Young takes the reader on a journey through more than 2000 years of biographical writings, iconographic depictions, and ritual practices revealing Buddhism's deep struggles with gender.Juxtaposing empowering images of women with their textual repudiation, beginning with the Buddha himself who abandoned his wife; tantric courtesans who are considered necessary to male enlightenment with fertility rituals designed to ensure male offspring; tales of gender-bending gods and goddesses with all male heavens; Serinity Young draws on a vast range of sources to reveal the colourful, and often troubling, mosaic of beliefs that inform Buddhist views about gender…
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