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.
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.
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
* 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
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