Seven Being a Man vs. Being a Monk: Alternative Versions of Burmese Buddhist Masculinity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: Masculinities Beyond the Buddha 1
6. PART ONE: Masculine Models
7. One Middle Way Masculinity: The Bodhisattva Siddhārtha as a Renunciant in Early Buddhist Texts and Art 21
8. Two How Chan Masters Became “Great Men”: Masculinity in Chinese Chan Buddhism 51
9. Three Men of Virtue: Reexamining the Bodhisattva King in Sri Lanka 78
10. PART TWO: Mighty Masters
11. Four The Siddha Who Tamed Tibet: Padmasambhava’s Tantric Masculinity 103
12. Five Building a Nation on the Dharma Battlefield: Lay Zen Masculinities in Modern Japan 129
13. Six Macho Buddhism (Redux): Gender and Sexualities in the Diamond Way 154
14. PART THREE: Making Men
15. Seven Being a Man vs. Being a Monk: Alternative Versions of Burmese Buddhist Masculinity 183
16. Eight Hanuman, Heroes, and Buddhist Masculinity in Contemporary Thailand 206
17. Nine Buddhism and Afro-Asian Masculinities in The Man with the Iron Fists 233
18. PART FOUR: Breaking Boundaries
19. Ten The Afterlife of the Tang Monk: Buddhist Masculinity and the Image of Xuanzang in East Asia 259
20. Eleven Real Monks Don’t Have Gṛhastha Sex: Revisiting Male Celibacy in Classical South Asian Buddhism 288
21. Appendix: Character Glossary 313
22. Contributors 319
23. Index 321