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Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism

Autor Reiko Ohnuma
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iul 2012
Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism, drawing on textual sources preserved in Pali and Sanskrit. She demonstrates that Buddhism in India had a complex and ambivalent relationship with mothers and motherhood-symbolically, affectively, and institutionally. Symbolically, motherhood was a double-edged sword, sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most paradigmatic manifestation possible of attachment and suffering. On an affective level, too, motherhood was viewed with the same ambivalence: in Buddhist literature, warm feelings of love and gratitude for the mother's nurturance and care frequently mingle with submerged feelings of hostility and resentment for the unbreakable obligations thus created, and positive images of self-sacrificing mothers are counterbalanced by horrific depictions of mothers who kill and devour. Institutionally, the formal definition of the Buddhist renunciant as one who has severed all familial ties seems to co-exist uneasily with an abundance of historical evidence demonstrating monks' and nuns' continuing concern for their mothers, as well as other familial entanglements. Ohnuma's study provides critical insight into Buddhist depictions of maternal love and maternal grief, the role played by the Buddha's own mothers, Maya and Mahaprajapati, the use of pregnancy and gestation as metaphors for the attainment of enlightenment, the use of breastfeeding as a metaphor for the compassionate deeds of buddhas and bodhisattvas, and the relationship between Buddhism and motherhood as it actually existed in day-to-day life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199915675
ISBN-10: 0199915679
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 7 halftones
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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this is a masterful work of synchronic interpretation. It stands as a great resource to scholars of Indian Buddhism and gender studies, as well as religious studies and Buddhist studies more broadly. Clear and insightful in its presentation, the work provides an excellent basis for conversation in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms.
Ohnumas book introduces some compelling arguments about how maternal imagery may be presented in a wide array of Buddhist texts, and it should be considered recommended reading for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in the fields of Buddhism and womens and gender studies.
wide-ranging work of textual analysis.
In Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism, Reiko Ohnuma combines rigorous scholarship, attention to detail, and an eviable clarity of writing to produce an engaging and thought-provoking work.

Notă biografică

Associate Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College