Buddhism, sexuality, and gender / edited by José Ignacio Cabezón.

Delhi : Sri Satguru Publications, 1992.

xix, 241 pages ; 23 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: IBC

Attitudes toward women and the feminine in early Buddhism / Alan Sponberg -- The female mendicant in Buddhist Srī Laṅkā / Tessa Bartholomeusz -- Buddhism and abortion in contemporary Japan : Mizuko Kuyō and the confrontation with death / Bardwell Smith -- Buddhist women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian Conversion Movement / Eleanor Zelliot -- Gender andpersuasion : the portrayal of beauty, anguish, and nurturance in an account of a Tamil nun / Paula Richman -- Lin-chi (Rinzai) Chʻan and gender : the rhetoric of equality and the rhetoric of heroism / Miriam L. Levering -- The gender symbolism of Kuan-yin Bodhisattva / Barbara E. Reed -- Mother wisdom, father love : gender-based imagery in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought / José Ignacio Cabezón -- Homosexuality as seen in Indian Buddhist texts / Leonard Zwilling -- Kūkai and the tradition of male love in Japanese Buddhism / Paul Gordon Schalow.

Includes bibliographic references and index