Buddhist Hagiography
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Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia (National Foreign Language Center Technical Reports) List Price: $49.00 Sale Price: $27.48  |
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the biographical genre of the Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Scholars in the history of religions, anthropology, literature, and art history present a broad range of exploration into sacred biography as an interpretive genre... |
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Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography (Studies in East Asian Buddhism) List Price: $29.00 Sale Price: $26.25 |
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Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Women in Culture and Society) List Price: $27.50 Sale Price: $11.90 |
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In this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women,Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions ofspirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played inmonastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhisthagiographic literature... |
