Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature Paula Stokes Author: Anne De Courcy

Author: Anne De Courcy

ISBN-13: 9780008278700

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Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature Paula Stokes Author: Anne De CourcyIn this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, Liz Wilson investigates first millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of Buddhist monks, women's bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after death) served as a central object for