TY  - GEN
T1  - The power of denial : Buddhism, purity, and gender
T2  - Buddhisms.
A1  - Faure, Bernard
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn436084202
AB  - Innumerable studies have appeared in recent decades about practically every aspect of women's lives in Western societies. The few such works on Buddhism have been quite limited in scope. In The Power of Denial, Bernard Faure takes an important step toward redressing this situation by boldly asking: does Buddhism offer women liberation or limitation? Continuing the innovative exploration of sexuality in Buddhism he began in The Red Thread, here he moves from his earlier focus on male monastic sexuality to Buddhist conceptions of women and constructions of gender. Faure argues that Buddhism is n.
OP  - 466
CN  - BQ4570.W6 F38 2003eb
SN  - 9781400825615
SN  - 140082561X
SN  - 9780691091709
SN  - 0691091706
SN  - 9780691091716
SN  - 0691091714
KW  - Women : Religious aspects : Buddhism.
KW  - Sex : Religious aspects : Buddhism.
KW  - Buddhism : Doctrines.
KW  - Femmes : Aspect religieux : Bouddhisme.
KW  - Sexualité : Aspect religieux : Bouddhisme.
KW  - Bouddhisme : Doctrines.
KW  - RELIGION : Buddhism : General.
KW  - Buddhism : Doctrines
KW  - Sex : Religious aspects : Buddhism
KW  - Women : Religious aspects : Buddhism
KW  - Boeddhisme.
KW  - Sekseverschillen.
ER  -