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Brides of the Buddha: Nuns' Stories from the Avadanasataka

Brides of the Buddha: Nuns' Stories from the Avadanasataka

Muldoon-Hules, Karen

Hardcover

Ancient History GeneralBuddhismIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1498511457
ISBN13: 9781498511452
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 5 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study uses ten stories from the Avadanasataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns' hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.

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