The Generative Power of Disgust: Aesthetics, Morality, and the Abject Preta Body
What can Buddhist portrayals of the non-human body tell us about the human body? What can we learn from abject bodies in Buddhist literature? In this article I examine depictions of the abject body of disgusting pretas in early South Asian narratives for insight on what they reveal about early Buddh...
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Language: | English |
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Peeters Publishers
2020
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Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 43, Pages: 129-165 |
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