Brides of the Buddha

Nuns' Stories from the Avadanasataka

Karen Muldoon-Hules (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1145-2 (ISBN)

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For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study uses ten stories from the Avadānaśataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns’ hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.

Karen Muldoon-Hules is lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department and the Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Chapter 1: Buddhist Women in Early India
Chapter 2: Marriage and Meaning in Late Vedic and Classical Hinduism
Chapter 3: Marriage and Meaning in Indian Buddhism
Chapter 4: How Should a Daughter Renounce?
Chapter 5: Suprabhā, Kāśisundarī, and the Indic Svayaṃvara
Chapter 6: Other Women, Other Walks of Life
Chapter 7: Some Conclusions and Observations
Appendix 1: Dating the Avadānaśataka
Appendix 2: Sectarian Affiliation

Erscheinungsdatum	22.06.2017
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 238 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-1145-7 / 1498511457
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-1145-2 / 9781498511452
Zustand	Neuware