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Riven by lust : incest and schism in Indian Buddhist legend and historiography
- Author
- Silk, Jonathan A.
- Title
- Riven by lust : incest and schism in Indian Buddhist legend and historiography / Jonathan A. Silk.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
- Description
- 347 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Incest and schism
- The creation of sects in early Buddhism
- The story of Mahadeva
- The Buddhist context of sin
- Mahadeva in other sources
- Schism accounts in Buddhist doxographies
- The story of Dharmaruci
- Abuse and victimhood
- Persian perversities
- The bedtrick
- Retelling Dharmaruci's story
- Dharmaruci in other sources
- Incest in Indian Buddhist culture
- The story of Utpalavarna
- The "Indian Oedipus"
- Joseph and the wife of Potiphar
- Further dimensions of the Oedipal in India
- The medeival European Oedipal Judas
- Why incest taboos?
- Forging Mahadeva.
- Kinsey subjects
- Buddhism. Incest--India. Incest in literature. Oedipus complex.
- ISBN
- 9780824830908 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0824830903 (hardcover : alk. paper)