Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) - Image 1

£110.79

Routledge Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

Name: Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 110.79 GBP
Availability: InStock

Women in History

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£111 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 52 days • 52 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 52 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £111 (52 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £111 - £111

Price levels: 1 different prices over 52 days

Description

Recent decades have seen a groundswell in the Buddhist world, a transnational agitation for better opportunities for Buddhist women. Many of the main players in the transnational nuns movement self-identify as feminists but other participants in this movement may not know or use the language of feminism. In fact, many ordained Buddhist women say they seek higher ordination so that they might be better Buddhist practitioners, not for the sake of gender equality. Eschewing the backward projection of secular liberal feminist categories, this book describes the basic features of the Buddhist discourse of the female body, held more or less in common across sectarian lines, and still pertinent to ordained Buddhist women today. The textual focus of the study is an early-first-millennium Sanskrit Buddhist work, "Descent into the Womb scripture" or Garbhāvakrānti-sūtra. Drawing out the implications of this text, the author offers innovative arguments about the significance of childbirth and fertility in Buddhism, namely that birth is a master metaphor in Indian Buddhism; that Buddhist gender constructions are centrally shaped by Buddhist birth discourse; and that, by undermining the religious importance of female fertility, the Buddhist construction of an inauspicious, chronically impure, and disgusting femininity constituted a portal to a new, liberated, feminine life for Buddhist monastic women. Thus, this study of the Buddhist discourse of birth is also a genealogy of gender in middle period Indian Buddhism. Offering a new critical perspective on the issues of gender, bodies and suffering, this book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers in the field of Buddhism, South Asian history and religion, gender and religion, theory and method in the study of religion, and Buddhist medicine. Review "Brilliant analysis of suffering in early Indian Buddhist literature, highlighting its basic connection with birth and the impact of this connection on the lives of Buddhist men and women. With suffering and birth equated, woman were cast as sources of suffering, which in turn gave away to Buddhist literature of disgust that transformed 'the beautiful sexualized and fertile female form into something ugly and repugant." ―Rory Lindsay, Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly About the Author Amy Paris Langenberg is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College, US.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138201235
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Women in History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 May 2017
Listed Since: 07 July 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Women in Pali Buddhism - Spiritual Paths Book

The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender: 4 (Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)

Family in Buddhism

Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature

The Refutation of the Self in Indian Buddhism: Candrakīrti on the Selflessness of Persons (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

Columbia University Press - Buddhism and Medicine Anthology

Performance in a Time of Terror: Five Sinhala Plays from Sri Lanka

Routledge Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All Book

Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha)

The Ten Great Birth Stories of the Buddha: The Mahanipata of the Jatakatthavanonoana

Routledge Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy - 2nd Edition

Tantric Buddhist Practice in India: Vilasavajras commentary on the Majusri-namasa?giti (Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions)

Buddhism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (Investigating Philosophy of Religion)

Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture: Between Moses and Buddha, 1890–1940 (Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies)

The Sublime Continuum and Its Explanatory Commentary: With the Sublime Continuum Supercommentary - Revised Edition (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences)

Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp (Studies of the International Center for Korean Studies, Korea University)

Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras: British Library Kharosthi Fragments 12 and 14 (Gandharan Buddhist Texts): 2

Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective

THE FORERUNNER OF ALL THINGS: Buddhaghosa On Mind, Intention, And Agency

The Ten Great Birth Stories of the Buddha: The Mahanipata of the Jatakatthavanonoana

Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka: A Critique of the Feminist Perspective (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

The Ekottara Agama Sutra A New Translation with Commentary, Volume 2: A Clear and Accessible Translation for the Modern Reader (The Madhyama Āgama Sutra)

Socially Engaged Buddhism (Dimensions of Asian Spirituality): 13

Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism