Reiko Ohnuma

Ties That Bind

Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism

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Produktbeschreibung

Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism, drawing on textual sources preserved in Pali and Sanskrit. She demonstrates that Buddhism in India had a complex and ambivalent relationship with mothers and motherhood-symbolically, affectively, and institutionally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780199915675
• ISBN-10: 0199915679
• Artikelnr.: 34739346

Autorenporträt

Associate Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Conventions
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: ''A Mother's Heart is Tender'': Buddhist Depictions of
Mother-Love
* Chapter 2: ''Whose Heart Was Maddened by the Loss of Her Child'':
Mothers in Grief
* Chapter 3: ''Whose Womb Shall I Enter Today?'': Maya as Idealized
Birth-Giver
* Chapter 4: ''Who Breast-Fed the Blessed One After His Mother Had
Died'': Nurturance, Guilt, and Debt in the Traditions Surrounding
Mahaprajapati
* Chapter 5: ''Short-Lived'' versus ''Long-Standing''; Maya and
Mahaprajapati Compared
* Chapter 6: ''She is the Mother and Begetter of the Conquerors'':
Pregnancy, Gestation, and Enlightenment
* Chapter 7: ''Just as a Mother's Milk Flows From Her Breasts'':
Breastfeeding and Compassionate Deeds
* Chapter 8: ''What Here is the Merit, May That Be For My Parents'':
Motherhood On the Ground
* Conclusion
* Abbreviations
* Bibliography
* Index