Riven by Lust : : Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography /

Riven by Lust : : Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography / / Jonathan A. Silk.

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Riven by Lust explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. In tracing this Indian Buddhist Oedipal tale, Jonathan Silk follows it through texts in all of the major canonical languages of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Silk, Jonathan A.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 6 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Technical Details and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Incest and Schism
  • 2. The Creation of Sects in Early Buddhism
  • 3. The Story of Mahãdeva
  • 4. The Buddhist Context of Sin
  • 5. Mahâdeva in Other Sources
  • 6. Schism Accounts in Buddhist Doxographies
  • 7. The Story of Dharmaruci
  • 8. Abuse and Victimhood
  • 9. Persian Perversities
  • 10. The Bedtrick
  • 11. Retelling Dharmaruci's Story
  • 12. Dharmaruci in Other Sources
  • 13. Incest in Indian Buddhist Culture
  • 14. The Story of Utpalavar»â
  • 15. The "Indian Oedipus"
  • 16. Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar
  • 17. Further Dimensions of the Oedipal in India
  • 18. The Medieval European Oedipal Judas
  • 19. Why Incest Taboos?
  • 20. Forging Mahâdeva
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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