A Bull of a Man
- ISBN-10
- 0674054431
- ISBN-13
- 9780674054431
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-04-02
- 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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