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A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism
Harvard University Press, 2009 eISBN: 978-0-674-05443-1 | Paper: 978-0-674-06403-4 | Cloth: 978-0-674-03329-0 Library of Congress Classification BQ4570.M365P68 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 294.337
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Body | Buddhism | Man | Masculinity | Men's Studies See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Harvard University Press, 2009
eISBN: 978-0-674-05443-1
Paper: 978-0-674-06403-4
Cloth: 978-0-674-03329-0
eISBN: 978-0-674-05443-1
Paper: 978-0-674-06403-4
Cloth: 978-0-674-03329-0
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
