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Virtuous Bodies - The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics

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Zusatztext Virtuous Bodies is a masterful interdisciplinary work. Mrozik's innovative approach breaks down disciplinary boundaries between ethics! gender studies! history of religions! and critical theory. Informationen zum Autor Susanne Mrozik is Assistant Professor of Religion, Mount Holyoke College Klappentext Virtuous Bodies breaks new ground in the field of Buddhist ethics by investigating the diverse roles bodies play in ethical development. Traditionally, Buddhists assumed a close connection between body and morality. Thus Buddhist literature contains descriptions of living beings that stink with sin, are disfigured by vices, or are perfumed and adorned with virtues. Taking an influential early medieval Indian Mahayana Buddhisttext-Santideva's Compendium of Training (Siksasamuccaya)-as a case study, Susanne Mrozik demonstrates that Buddhists regarded ethical development as a process of physical and moral transformation. Mrozik chooses The Compendium of Training because it quotes from over one hundred Buddhist scriptures, allowing her to reveal a broader Buddhist interest in the ethical significance of bodies. The text is a training manual for bodhisattvas, especially monastic bodhisattvas. In it, bodies function as markers of, and conditions for, one's own ethical development. Most strikingly, bodies also function as instruments for the ethical development of others. When living beings come intocontact with the virtuous bodies of bodhisattvas, they are transformed physically and morally for the better. Virtuous Bodies explores both the centrality of bodies to the bodhisattva ideal and the corporeal specificity of that ideal. Arguing that the bodhisattva ideal is an embodied ethical ideal, Mrozik poses an array of fascinating questions: What does virtue look like? What kinds of physical features constitute virtuous bodies? What kinds of bodies have virtuous effects on others? Drawing on a range of contemporary theorists, this book engages in a feminist hermeneutics of recovery andsuspicion in order to explore the ethical resources Buddhism offers to scholars and religious practitioners interested in the embodied nature of ethical ideals. Zusammenfassung Virtuous Bodies breaks new ground in the field of Buddhist ethics by investigating the diverse roles bodies play in ethical development. Traditionally! Buddhists assumed a close connection between body and morality. Thus Buddhist literature contains descriptions of living beings that stink with sin! are disfigured by vices! or are perfumed and adorned with virtues. Taking an influential early medieval Indian Mahayana Buddhisttext-Santideva's Compendium of Training (Siksasamuccaya)-as a case study! Susanne Mrozik demonstrates that Buddhists regarded ethical development as a process of physical and moral transformation. Mrozik chooses The Compendium of Training because it quotes from over one hundred Buddhist scriptures! allowing her to reveal a broader Buddhist interest in the ethical significance of bodies. The text is a training manual for bodhisattvas! especially monastic bodhisattvas. In it! bodies function as markers of! and conditions for! one's own ethical development. Most strikingly! bodies also function as instruments for the ethical development of others. When living beings come intocontact with the virtuous bodies of bodhisattvas! they are transformed physically and morally for the better. Virtuous Bodies explores both the centrality of bodies to the bodhisattva ideal and the corporeal specificity of that ideal. Arguing that the bodhisattva ideal is an embodied ethical ideal! Mrozik poses an array of fascinating questions: What does virtue look like? What kinds of physical features constitute virtuous bodies? What kinds of bodies have virtuous effects on others? Drawing on a range of contemporary theorists! this book engages in a feminist hermeneutics of recovery andsuspicion in order to explore ...

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Authors Mrozik, Susanne Mrozik
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 20.07.2007
 
EAN 9780195305005
ISBN 978-0-19-530500-5
No. of pages 184
Dimensions 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
Series AAR Cultural Criticism Series
AAR Cultural Criticism Series
American Academy of Religion C
AAR Cultural Criticism
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions

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