Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature

by Liz Wilson

Book Overview

In this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women,
Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of
spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in
monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist
hagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of
Buddhist monks, women's bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after
death) served as a central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226900541
• ISBN13: 9780226900544
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"