Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Family and the Construction of Religious Communities Liz Wilson Part I. Historical Families, Imagined Families 2. Serving the Emperor by Serving the Buddha: Imperial Buddhist Monks and Nuns and Abbots, Abbesses, and Adoptees in Early Modern Japan Gina Cogan 3. The Tantric Family Romance: Sex and the Construction of Social Identity in Tantric Buddhist Ritual David Gray 4. Bone and Heart Sons: Biological and Imagined Kin in the Creation of Family Lineage in Tibetan Buddhism Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa 5. Families Matter: Ambiguous Attitudes toward Child Ordination in Contemporary Sri Lanka Jeffrey Samuels Part II. Parents and Children 6. The Passion of Mulian's Mother: Narrative Blood and Maternal Sacrifices in Chinese Buddhism Alan Cole 7. Maya's Disappearing Act: Motherhood in Early Buddhist Literature Vanessa R. Sasson 8. Mother as Character Coach: Maternal Agency in the Birth of Sivali Liz Wilson Part III. Wives and Husbands 9. Yasodhara in the Buddhist Imagination: Three Portraits Spanning the Centuries Ranjini Obeyesekere 10. Evangelizing the Happily Married Man through Low Talk: On Sexual and Scatological Language in the Buddhist Tale of Nanda Amy Paris Langenberg 11. Runaway Brides: Tensions Surrounding Marital Expectations in the Avadanasataka Phillip Green 12. The Priesthood as a Family Trade: Reconsidering Monastic Marriage in Premodern Japan Lori Meeks Contributors Index
Liz Wilson is Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University in Ohio. She is the editor of The Living and the Dead: Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature.
"Wilson ... frames the pieces with an introduction that effectively grounds their specialized and occasionally esoteric focuses. This work is best suited for advanced undergraduates and graduate students learning to think outside the box of traditional scholarship and methodologies." - CHOICE
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