A Bull of a Man : Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism / John Powers.
Powers, John, author.
2012
BQ4570.M365 P68 2012
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Title A Bull of a Man : Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism / John Powers.
Author Powers, John, author.
ISBN 9780674054431
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054431
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.4159/9780674054431 doi
Call Number BQ4570.M365 P68 2012
Alternate Call Number BE 8592
Dewey Decimal Classification 294.337
Summary The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts. In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, John Powers skillfully 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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Frontmatter
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
Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index
Appendix 1: The Major and Minor Physical Characteristics of a Great Man
Appendix 2: Epithets of the Buddha
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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