Ohnuma Reiko (63 results)

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Editors' Introduction. Sugirtharajah, Courtly Text and Courting Sati. Kienzle and Nienhuis, Beverly Mayne, Battered Women and the Construction of Sanctity. Ohnuma, Woman, Bodhisattva, and Buddha. Mitchem, Womanists and (Unfinished) Constructions of Salvation (Review Essay). Miles, From the Garden to the Academy: Blame, Battle, or a Better Way? Exploring Sex and Power in the Academy. 9.0" tall; 121 pages. …

dj. First Edition. Reiko Ohnuma Bodily Self-Sacrifice in Indian Buddhist Literature First Indian Edition, 2009, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket.

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Condition: New. 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. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: HRE; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382. . 2012. Paperback. . . . .…

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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. Symbolically, motherhood was a double-edged sword, sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most paradigmatic manifestation possible of attachment and suffering. On an affective level, too, motherhood was viewed with the same ambivalence: in Buddhist literature, warm feelings of love and gratitude for the mother's nurturance and care frequently mingle with submerged feelings of hostility and resentment for the unbreakable obligations thus created, and positive images of self-sacrificing mothers are counterbalanced by horrific depictions of mothers who kill and devour. Institutionally, the formal definition of the Buddhist renunciant as one who has severed all familial ties seems to co-exist uneasily with an abundance of historical evidence demonstrating monks' and nuns' continuing concern for their mothers, as well as other familial entanglements. Ohnuma's study provides critical insight into Buddhist depictions of maternal love and maternal grief, the role played by the Buddha's own mothers, Maya and Mahaprajapati, the use of pregnancy and gestation as metaphors for the attainment of enlightenment, the use of breastfeeding as a metaphor for the compassionate deeds of buddhas and bodhisattvas, and the relationship between Buddhism and motherhood as it actually existed in day-to-day life.…

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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Conventions used in this book. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The gift of the body genre. 2. Conventions of plot. 3. Conventions of rhetoric. 4. Dana the Buddhist discourse on giving. 5. A flexible gift. 6. Bodies ordinary and ideal. 7. Kingship sacrifice offering and death some other interpretive contexts. Conclusions. Appendix A corpus of gift of the body Jatakas. Notes. Bibliography of works cited. Index. This is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature the Buddha's bodily self sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit Pali Chinese and Tibetan literature written between the third century B.c.e. and the late medieval period Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. Whether he takes the form of king prince ascetic elephant hare serpent or God the bodhisattva repeatedly gives his body or parts of his flesh to others. He leaps into fires drowns himself in the ocean rips out his tusks gouges out his eyes and lets mosquitoes drink from his blood always out of selflessness and compassion and to achieve this highest state of Buddhahood. Ohnuma places these stories into a discrete sub genre of South Asian Buddhist literature and approaches them like case studies analyzing their plots characterizations and rhetoric. She then relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self sacrifice to major conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions such as the categories of the gift the body (both ordinary and extraordinary) kingship sacrifice ritual offering and death. The work reveals a very sophisticated and influential perception of the body in South Asian Buddhist literature and highlights the way in which these stories have provided an important cultural resource for Buddhists. Combined with her rich and careful translations of classic texts Ohnuma introduces a whole new understanding of a vital concept in Buddhists studies. 372 pp.…

Condition: New. 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. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: HRE; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Unfortunate Destiny focuses on the roles played by nonhuman animals within the imaginative thought-world of Indian Buddhism, as reflected in pre-modern South Asian Buddhist literature. These roles are multifaceted, diverse, and often contradictory: In Buddhist doctrine and cosmology, the animal rebirth is a most "unfortunate destiny" (durgati), won through negative karma and characterized by a lack of intelligence, moral agency, and spiritual potential. In stories about the Buddha's previous lives, on the other hand, we find highly anthropomorphized animals who are wise, virtuous, endowed with human speech, and often critical of the moral shortcomings of humankind. In the life-story of the Buddha, certain animal characters serve as "doubles" of the Buddha, illuminating his nature through identification, contrast or parallelism with an animal "other." Relations between human beings and animals likewise range all the way from support, friendship, and near-equality to rampant exploitation, cruelty, and abuse. Perhaps the only commonality among these various strands of thought is a persistent impulse to use animals to clarify the nature of humanity itself--whether through similarity, contrast, or counterpoint. Buddhism is a profoundly human-centered religious tradition, yet it relies upon a dexterous use of the animal other to help clarify the human self. This book seeks to make sense of this process through a wide-ranging-exploration of animal imagery, animal discourse, and specific animal characters in South Asian Buddhist texts.…

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Condition: New. This book constitutes the first major study of Indian Buddhist ideas about nonhuman animals and the roles played by animal characters in Buddhist literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRE; HREC; HREP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. . . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . …

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Condition: New. This book constitutes the first major study of Indian Buddhist ideas about nonhuman animals and the roles played by animal characters in Buddhist literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRE; HREC; HREP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. . . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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