Disappearing and Disappeared Daughters in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Sūtras on Sex Transformation and an Intervention into Their Transmission History
This study interprets three little-known Mahāyāna sūtras preserved in Chinese that all contain remarkable teachings on the buddhahood of women and the practice of sex transformation along the path to buddhahood. Showing that these three sūtras are part of a larger and more complicated subgenre of te...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2021
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History of religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 255-286 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Buddhism
/ Sutra
/ Woman
/ Gender reassignment surgery
/ Buddhahood
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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