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Buddhist masculinities / edited by Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew.

Bryson, Megan, (editor.). Buckelew, Kevin, (editor.).

Summary:

"While early Buddhists hailed their religion’s founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha’s body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism spread throughout Asia and around the world, the Buddha remained an exemplary man, but Buddhists in other times and places developed their own understandings of what it meant to be masculine. This transdisciplinary book brings together essays that explore the variety and diversity of Buddhist masculinities, from early India to

the contemporary United States, and from bodhisattva-kings to martial monks. Buddhist Masculinities adopts the methods of religious studies, anthropology, art history, textual-historical studies, and cultural studies to explore texts, images, films, media, and embodiments of masculinity across the Buddhist world, past and present. It turns scholarly attention to normative forms of masculinity that usually go unmarked and unstudied precisely because they are “normal,” illuminating the religious and cultural processes that construct Buddhist masculinities. Engaging with contemporary issues of gender identity, intersectionality, and sexual ethics, Buddhist Masculinities ushers in a new era for the study of Buddhism and gender." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0231558430
ISBN: 9780231558433
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages)
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString.july.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Masculinities Beyond the Buddha -- Part I. Masculine Models: 1. Middle Way Masculinity: The Bodhisattva Siddhārtha as a Renunciant in Early Buddhist Texts and Art -- 2. How Chan Masters Became "Great Men": Masculinity in Chinese Chan Buddhism -- 3. Men of Virtue: Reexamining the Bodhisattva King in Sri Lanka -- Part II. Mighty Masters: 4. The Siddha Who Tamed Tibet: Padmasambhava's Tantric Masculinity -- 5. Building a Nation on the Dharma Battlefield: Lay Zen Masculinities in Modern Japan -- 6. Macho Buddhism (Redux): Gender and Sexualities in the Diamond Way -- Part III. Making Men: 7. Being a Man vs. Being a Monk: Alternative Versions of Burmese Buddhist Masculinity -- 8. Hanuman, Heroes, and Buddhist Masculinity in Contemporary Thailand -- 9. Buddhism and Afro-Asian Masculinities in The Man with the Iron Fists -- Part IV. Breaking Boundaries: 10. The Afterlife of the Tang Monk: Buddhist Masculinity and the Image of Xuanzang in East Asia -- 11. Real Monks Don't Have Gr?hastha Sex: Revisiting Male Celibacy in Classical South Asian Buddhism.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2023).