CONTENTS:-
I. Gender AND Buddhist History:
1. Attitudes toward Women and the Feminine in Early Buddhism/Alan Sponberg
2. The Female Mendicant in Buddhist Sri Lanka/Tessa Bartholomeusz
II. GENDER AND CONTEMPORARY BUDDHIST CULTURE:
3. Buddhism and Abortion in Contemporary Japan: Mizuko Kuyo and the Confrontation with Death/Bardwell Smith
4. Buddhist Women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian Conversion Movement/Eleanor Zelliot
III. THE RHETORIC OF GENDER IN BUDDHIST Texts:
5. Gender and Persuasion: The Portrayal of Beauty, Anguish, and Nurturance in an Account of a Tamil Nun/Paula Richman
6. Lin-Chi (Rinzai) Ch'an and Gender: The Rhetoric of Equality and the Rhetoric of Heroism/Miriam L. Levering
IV. GENDER AND BUDDHIST SYMBOLS:
7. The Gender Symbolism of Kuan-yin Bodhisattva/Barbara E. Reed
8. Mother Wisdom, Father Love: Gender Based Imagery in Mahayana Buddhist Thought/Jose Ignacio Cabezon
V. BUDDHISM AND Homosexuality:
9. Homosexuality as Seen in Indian Buddhist Texts/Leonard Zwilling
10. Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese Buddhism/Paul Gordon Schalow
