Brides of the Buddha (eBook)

Nuns' Stories from the Avadanasataka

Karen Muldoon-Hules (Autor)

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2017
240 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1146-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Avadanasataka, 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Buddhist Women in Early IndiaChapter 2: Marriage and Meaning in Late Vedic and Classical HinduismChapter 3: Marriage and Meaning in Indian BuddhismChapter 4: How Should a Daughter Renounce?Chapter 5: Suprabhā, Kāśisundarī, and the Indic SvayaṃvaraChapter 6: Other Women, Other Walks of LifeChapter 7: Some Conclusions and ObservationsAppendix 1: Dating the AvadānaśatakaAppendix 2: Sectarian Affiliation

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 7 Illustrations including: - 7 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Avadanasataka • Buddhism • Buddhist nuns • Gender • India • marriage • Nun hagiographies • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1146-5 / 1498511465
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1146-9 / 9781498511469