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Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography
Jonathan A. Silk
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Description for Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography
Hardcover. 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. This book investigates the psychological and anthropological understandings of the tale of mother-son incest in light of psychological and anthropological understandings of incest. Num Pages: 376 pages, 6 charts. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRE; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
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 Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese, along the way noting parallels and contrasts with classical and medieval European stories such as the legend of the Oedipal Judas. He tracks the Indian myth in both directions - back to its probable early sources and forward in its ... Read more
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 Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese, along the way noting parallels and contrasts with classical and medieval European stories such as the legend of the Oedipal Judas. He tracks the Indian myth in both directions - back to its probable early sources and forward in its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824830908
SKU
V9780824830908
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About Jonathan A. Silk
Jonathan A. Silk is professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden University.
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