Ties that bind: maternal imagery and discourse in indian buddhism
Auteur :
Ohnuma, Reiko
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780199915651
Date de publication :
12 juil. 2012
Dimensions :
16,3 x 23,4 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
544 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.