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100 1  Faure, Bernard. 
245 14 The power of denial :|bBuddhism, purity, and gender /
       |cBernard Faure. 
264  1 Princeton, N.J. :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2003] 
264  4 |c©2003 
300    ix, 466 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Buddhisms 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-458) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: "Soaring and settling" : too soon? -- The 
       cultural approach -- Gender revisited -- Gendering 
       Buddhism -- Pt.1 Buddhism and women. The second order. The
       evolution of the female sangha -- The female order in 
       Japan -- The issue of ordination -- Sociological 
       context(s) -- Sorely missed -- Nunhood and feminism -- The
       rhetoric of subordination. A theodicy of disprivilege -- 
       The five obstacles and the three dependences -- A case of 
       blood poisoning -- Drinking from the blood bowl -- The 
       "facts" of life -- The red and the white -- The rhetoric 
       of salvation. The legend of the naga-girl --Becoming male 
       -- Interpretative divergences -- Amida's vow and its 
       implications -- A feminine topos -- The rhetoric of 
       equality. Gender equality in Mahayana -- Gender equality 
       in Vajrayana -- Chan/Zen egalitarianism -- Pt.2 Imagining 
       Buddhist women. Monks, mothers, and motherhood. Bad 
       mothers -- The ambivalent mother -- Mater dolorosa -- The 
       forsaken mother -- The changing image of motherhood -- 
       Varieties of motherly experience -- Mad mothers -- The law
       of alliance -- Conflicting images. Women in the life of 
       the Buddha -- Queens, empresses, and other impressive 
       ladies -- Eminent nuns -- Femmes fatales -- Of women and 
       jewels -- Pt.3 Women against Buddhism. Crossing the line. 
       The utopian topos -- Stopped in their tracks -- Kukai's 
       mother -- The Kekkai stone -- Conflicting interpretations 
       -- The symbolic reading of transgression -- The kekkai and
       the logic of muen -- Women on the move. The "nuns of 
       Kumano" -- What's in a name -- Down by the river -- The 
       monk and the bayadere -- The discourteous courtesan -- 
       Paradigms -- The power of women. The myth of Tamayorihime 
       -- The Miko and the monk -- Women on the edge -- Women, 
       dragons, and snakes. 
650  0 Women|xReligious aspects|xBuddhism. 
650  0 Sex|xReligious aspects|xBuddhism. 
650  0 Buddhism|xDoctrines. 
830  0 Buddhisms. 
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