Автор: Jose Ignacio Cabezon
Название: Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism
Издательство: Wisdom Publications
Год: 2017
Серия: Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
ISBN: 1614293503
Язык: English
Формат: epub, pdf
Размер: 13,1 mb
Страниц: 632

More than twenty-five years in the making, this detailed sourcebook on Buddhist understandings of sexuality, desire, ethics, and deviance in classical South Asia is filled with both engaging translations and original and provocative analysis. Jose Cabezon, the XIVth Dalai Lama Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, marshals an incredible array of scriptures, legal and medical texts, and philosophical treatises, explaining the subtleties of this ancient literature in lucid prose. This work will be of immense interest not only to scholars of Buddhism and gender studies but also to lay readers who want to learn more about traditional Buddhist attitudes toward sex.