Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender

José Ignacio Cabezón is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is the author of A Dose of Emptiness: An Annotated Translation of the sTong thun chen mo of mKhas grub dGe legs dpal bzang, also published by SUNY Press.

• Introduction: Jose Ignacio CabezonI. Gender and Buddhist History 1. Attitudes toward Women and the Feminine in Early BuddhismAlan Sponberg 2. The Female Mendicant in Buddhist Sri LankaTessa BartholomeuszII. Gender and Contemporary Buddhist Culture 3. Buddhism and Abortion in Contemporary Japan: Mizuko Kuyo and the Confrontation with DeathBardwell Smith 4. Buddhist Women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian Conversion MovementEleanor ZelliotIII. The Rhetoric of Gender in Buddhist Texts 5. Gender and Persuasion: The Portrayal of Beauty, Anguish, and Nurturance in an Account of a Tamil NunPaula Richman 6. Lin-chi (Rinzai) Ch'an and Gender: The Rhetoric of Equality and the Rhetoric of HeroismMiriam L. LeveringIV. Gender and Buddhist Symbols 7. The Gender Symbolism of Kuan-yin BodhisattvaBarbara E. Reed 8. Mother Wisdom, Father Love: Gender-Based Imagery in Mahayana Buddhist ThoughtJose Ignacio CabezonV. Buddhism and Homosexuality 9. Homosexuality as Seen in Indian Buddhist TextsLeonard Zwilling 10. Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese BuddhismPaul Gordan Schalow Contributors Index

"It fills an important gap in the field—a serious, textually close reading of gender's influence on Buddhist thought and vice versa." — Anne Klein