A Bull Of A Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism.
by Powers, John
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Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2009.. 8vo. 320 pp. Black Cloth, Very Good+ with some notes penciled in margins. Focuses on the figure of the Buddha and his monastic followers to show how they were constructed as paragons of masculinity, whose powerful bodies and compelling sexuality attracted women, elicited admiration from men, and convinced skeptics of their spiritual attainments.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- A Bull Of A Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism.
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- Powers, John
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- Used
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- Hardcover
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- Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2009.
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- Religion;
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