ISBN:
9781438447537
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (300 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Family in Buddhism
DDC:
305.6/943
Keywords:
Families
;
Buddhist families
;
Buddhist families ; Asia
;
Families ; Asia
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
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Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Family and the Construction of Religious Communities -- 1. Renunciation as the Creation of a New Family -- 2. Renunciation for the Sake of Family -- 3. Renunciation Together with Family -- Historical Families, Imagined Families -- Parents and Children -- Wives and Husbands -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Historical Families, Imagined Families -- 2. Serving the Emperor by Serving the Buddha: Imperial Buddhist Monks and Nuns as Abbots, Abbesses, and Adoptees in Early Modern Japan -- Introduction -- The Imperial Family -- The Imperial Family and Buddhism -- Imperial Temples and Convents -- Imperial Convents and Temples in the Tokugawa Period -- Imperial Temples, Imperial Convents, and Imperial Rituals -- Adoption and Imperial Monastic Institutions -- Conclusion: Courtly, Familial Monastic Practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. The Tantric Family Romance: Sex and the Construction of Social Identity in Tantric Buddhist Ritual -- Introduction -- The South Asian Family and Buddhism -- Lineage and Tantric Buddhism -- Ritual Transactions: Entering the Family of the Guru -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Bone and Heart Sons: Biological and Imagined Kin in the Creation of Family Lineage in Tibetan Buddhism -- Introduction -- Background -- Introduction to Family Lineage in Tibetan Buddhism -- Introduction to Shakya Shri's Family -- Incarnation Lineages in Shakya Shri's Family -- Dual Lineages: Phagchog Dorje as a Khyentse -- Bone and Blood: Biological and Imagined Familial Ties -- Celibacy, Lifespan, and Ethics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Families Matter: Ambiguous Attitudes toward Child Ordination in Contemporary Sri Lanka -- Narada -- Narada's Father: Reflections and Resolutions -- Narada's Mother: Grief, Loss, and Attempted Resolutions -- Mangala.
Description / Table of Contents:
part I. Parents and childrenpart II. Parents and children -- part III. Wives and husbands.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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