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Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The author's anthropological approach uncovers the inherent discrepancies between the normative teachings of Buddhism and what its followers practice. Framing his discussion on some of the most prominent Western thinkers of sexuality--Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault--Faure draws from different reservoirs of writings, such as the orthodox and heterodox "doctrines" of Buddhism, and its monastic codes. Virtually untapped mythological as well as legal sources are also used. The dialectics inherent in Mahvyvna Buddhism, in particular in the Tantric and Chan/Zen traditions, seemed to allow for greater laxity and even encouraged breaking of taboos. Faure also offers a history of Buddhist monastic life, which has been buffeted by anticlerical attitudes, and by attempts to regulate sexual behavior from both within and beyond the monastery. In two chapters devoted to Buddhist homosexuality, he examines the way in which this sexual behavior was simultaneously condemned and idealized in medieval Japan. This book will appeal especially to those interested in the cultural history of Buddhism and in premodern Japanese culture. But the story of how one of the world's oldest religions has faced one of life's greatest problems makes fascinating reading for all.

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S37/0200 --- Buddhism outside China, Tibet, Mongolia and Japan--General works --- bouddhisme --- rationalités --- pensée chinoise --- transcendance --- humanisme --- spiritualité --- l'Occident --- Asie --- doctrines bouddhiques --- l'irrationnel --- philosophie --- religion

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L'histoire du bouddhisme Zen reste relativement méconnue, dans la mesure où l'on s'en tient encore trop souvent à l'image d'un Zen pur, iconoclaste et anti-ritualiste. Dans la réalité, les choses sont infiniment plus compliquées, comme le montre le cas de Keizan Jôkin (1278-1325), l'un des patriarches du Zen japonais. Keizan vivait dans un univers à la fois pragmatique et magique, peuplé d'êtres fabuleux et de divinités locales, et structuré par des forces cosmiques. C'est cet univers que l'auteur s'attache à rendre, en notant sa relation à la fois symbiotique et antagoniste avec l'idéologie épurée du Zen. Son approche, relevant autant de " l'anthropologie historique " que de l'histoire des religions, contribue à remettre en question les interprétations habituelles du Zen, du bouddhisme, et de la religion japonaise.