Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism

by Reiko Ohnuma

Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complex role of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism. Motherhood was sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most paradigmatic manifestation of attachment and suffering. In Buddhist literature, feelings of love and gratitude for the mother's nurturance frequently mingle with submerged feelings of hostility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199915679
• ISBN13: 9780199915675
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"