Of Ancestors and Ghosts

Of Ancestors and Ghosts

How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics

McNicholl, Adeana

Oxford University Press Inc

09/2024

296

Dura

9780197748909

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Entering the Realm of the Pretas

Part I: Constructing the Preta Realm
1. From Ancestor to Ghost: The Development of the Preta and its Realm
2. The Fruits of False Views: Arguments for Karma in Preta Narratives

Part II: Karma and Embodiment
3. Consuming the Fruits of One's Own Actions: Wealth, Class, and Caste
4. Virile Householders and Fertile Wives: Gender and Sexuality in this World and the Next
5. Decaying, Dying, Decomposing: The Aesthetics of Disgust and the Production of the Ethical Subject

Conclusion: The Afterlives of Preta Narratives
Works Cited
Index
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