Vanessa R. Sasson

Little Buddhas

Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions

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Produktbeschreibung

Edited by Vanessa R. Sasson, Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in Buddhist literature, in particular historical contexts, and their role in specific Buddhist contexts today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 916g
• ISBN-13: 9780199945610
• ISBN-10: 0199945616
• Artikelnr.: 47867912

Autorenporträt

Professor of Comparative Religion ,Marianopolis College; Research Fellow, Department of Biblical and Religious Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa; Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion, McGill University

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Introduction: Charting New Territory: Children and Childhoods in
Buddhist Texts and Traditions - Vanessa R. Sasson
* Part One: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts
* Chapter One: A New Hat for Hariti: On ''Giving'' Children for their
Protection to Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Early India - Gregory
Schopen
* Chapter Two: Scarecrows, Upasakas, Fetuses, and Other Child Monastics
in Middle Period Indian Buddhism - Amy Paris Langenberg
* Chapter Three: The Buddha's ''Childhood'': The Foundation for the
Great Departure - Vanessa R. Sasson
* Chapter Four: The Inheritance of Rahula: Abandoned Child, Boy Monk,
Ideal Son, and Trainee - Kate Crosby
* Chapter Five: The Precocious Child in Chinese Buddhism - Miriam
Levering
* Chapter Six: Picturing Childhood in Chinese Buddhism: The Sujati
Jataka in Text and Image - Winston Kyan
* Chapter Seven: ''What Children Need'': Making Childhood with
Technologies of Protection and Healing - Frances Garrett
* Chapter Eight: Picturing Buddhism: Nurturing Buddhist Worldviews
through Children's Books - Karen Derris
* Part Two: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Traditions
* Chapter Nine: Ordination (Pabbajja) as Going Forth?: Social Bonds and
the Making of a Buddhist Monastic - Jeffrey Samuels
* Chapter Ten: Monk and Boy: Becoming a Novice in Contemporary
Sipsongpanna - Thomas Borchert
* Chapter Eleven: Buddhism as a Vehicle for Girls' Safety and Education
in Thailand - Monica Lindberg Falk
* Chapter Twelve: Superheroes and Slapstick: New Media and the Teaching
of Buddhist Children in Thailand - Justin McDaniel
* Chapter Thirteen: Once We Were...: Former Child Nuns in Taiwan
Reflecting Back - Wei-Yi Cheng
* Chapter Fourteen: Zen-Boy Ikkyu - Melissa Anne-Marie Curley
* Chapter Fifteen: Marrying the ''Thought Of Enlightenment'': The
Multivalency of Girls' Symbolic Marriage Rites in the Newar Buddhist
Community of Kathmandu, Nepal - Todd Lewis and Christoph Emmrich
* Chapter Sixteen: Children in Himalayan Monasteries - Karma Lekshe
Tsomo
* Chapter Seventeen: The Westernization of Tulkus - Elijah Ary
* Chapter Eighteen: ''Give Me My Inheritance'': Western Buddhists
Raising Buddhist Children - Kristin Scheible
* Chapter Nineteen: Young Lord Maitreya: The Curious Case of Jiddu
Krishnamurti - Hillary Rodrigues
* Bibliography
* Index