Body, gender and sex : a study of sexual normativity and deviances in Indian Buddhist community (middle period)

• Main Author: Lee, Thomas Ming Zhi
• Other Authors: Nicholas Witkowski
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Religions::Buddhism
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76665
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis is an attempt to illustrate the conception of sexuality in Indian society during the middle period (first to sixth century CE). To this end, extant Buddhist Vinaya texts transmitted to China will be studied as a source which present—to a certain extent, the social reality and societal pe...