The Buddha left his home and family and enjoined his followers to go forth and ‘become homeless.’ With a traditionally celibate clergy, Asian Buddhism is often regarded as a world-renouncing religion inimical to family life. This edited volume counters this view, showing how Asian Buddhists in a wide range of historical and geographical circumstances relate as kin to their biological families and to the religious families they join. Using contemporary and historical case studies as well as textual examples, contributors explore how Asian Buddhists invoke family ties in the intentional communities they create and use them to establish religious authority and guard religious privilege. The language of family and lineage emerges as central to a variety of South and East Asian Buddhist contexts. With an interdisciplinary, Pan-Asian approach,
Family in Buddhism challenges received wisdom in religious studies and offers new ways to think about family and society.
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Family and the Construction of Religious Communities
Liz Wilson
Part I. Historical Families, Imagined Families
2. Serving the Emperor by Serving the Buddha: Imperial Buddhist Monks and Nuns and Abbots, Abbesses, and Adoptees in Early Modern Japan
Gina Cogan
3. The Tantric Family Romance: Sex and the Construction of Social Identity in Tantric Buddhist Ritual
David Gray
4. Bone and Heart Sons: Biological and Imagined Kin in the Creation of Family Lineage in Tibetan Buddhism
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
5. Families Matter: Ambiguous Attitudes toward Child Ordination in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Jeffrey Samuels
Part II. Parents and Children
6. The Passion of Mulian’s Mother: Narrative Blood and Maternal Sacrifices in Chinese Buddhism
Alan Cole
7. Māyā’s Disappearing Act: Motherhood in Early Buddhist Literature
Vanessa R. Sasson
8. Mother as Character Coach: Maternal Agency in the Birth of Sīvali
Liz Wilson
Part III. Wives and Husbands
9. Yasodharā in the Buddhist Imagination: Three Portraits Spanning the Centuries
Ranjini Obeyesekere
10. Evangelizing the Happily Married Man through Low Talk: On Sexual and Scatological Language in the Buddhist Tale of Nanda
Amy Paris Langenberg
11. Runaway Brides: Tensions Surrounding Marital Expectations in the
Avadānaśataka
Phillip Green
12. The Priesthood as a Family Trade: Reconsidering Monastic Marriage in Premodern Japan
Lori Meeks
Contributors
Index
Sobre o autor
Liz Wilson is Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University in Ohio. She is the editor of
The Living and the Dead: Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of
Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature.
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