A Bull of a Man

A Bull of a Man
ISBN-10
0674033299
ISBN-13
9780674033290
Category
Religion
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
John Powers

Description

The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts. In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, John Powers skillfully adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship.

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