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Charming Cadavers
Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature
(Women in Culture and Society)
by Liz Wilson

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• Language: english
• Author: Liz Wilson
• Release date: December 1, 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Genres: death, buddhism, religion
• ISBN: 9780226900544 (0226900541)
• Format: paperback, 276 pages
• Series: Women in Culture and Society

About The Book

In this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women,

Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of

spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in

monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist

hagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of

Buddhist monks, women’s bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after

death) served as a central object for meditation, inspiring spiritual

growth through sexual abstention and repulsion in the immediate world.

Taking up a set of universal concerns connected with the representation

of women, Wilson displays the pervasiveness of androcentrism in Buddhist

literature and practice. She also makes persuasive use of recent

historical work on the religious lives of women in medieval

Christianity, finding common ground in the role of miraculous

afflictions.

This lively and readable study brings provocative new tools and insights

to the study of women in religious life.

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