A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism
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In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, Powers adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship.
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The Vinaya excepts from classification as transgression cases in which the individual is bound up with madness, mental disorder, or painful vexation, as well as cases of nocturnal emission or nonconsensual sex during sleep.
“the Vinaya excepts Buckelew Numen 70 (2023) 337-368 from classification as transgression cases in which the individual is “bound up with madness, mental disorder, or painful vexation,”28 as well as cases of nocturnal emission or nonconsensual sex during sleep.”
From Possessing Enlightenment: Sorcery, Selfhood, and Tragic Responsibility in a Chinese Buddhist Apocryphon (2023) · cites this paper as Powers 2009
Rāhulamātā serves to provide evidence of the Buddha's virility-a prophylactic against potential charges that the Buddha was not the Bull of a Man he is claimed to have been.
“Moreover, as Rāhulamātā, she serves a very important purpose: she provides evidence of the Buddha's virility - a prophylactic against potential charges that the Buddha was not the Bull of a Man he is claimed to have been.”
From Buddhist Love Story (2020) · cites this paper as Powers 2009
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- Authors
- Powers, J.
- Corresponding author
- Powers, John
- ORCID
- Powers, John
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2009-12-31
- OpenAlex
- W4242003870
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 50.52
- Type
- book
- Language
- de
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Keywords
- early Buddhism, Buddhist iconography, Buddhist art, early Buddhist literature, historiography of Buddhism, Buddhist tradition
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