Little Buddhas : children and childhoods in Buddhist texts and traditions / edited by Vanessa R. Sasson.

Consideration of children in the academic field of Religious Studies is taking root, but Buddhist Studies has yet to take notice. This collection is intended to open the question of children in Buddhism. It brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what rol...

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Other Authors: Sasson, Vanessa R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:Religion, culture, and history series.
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505 0 |a Charting new territory: children and childhoods in Buddhist texts and traditions / Vanessa R. Sasson -- A new hat for Hārītī: On "giving" children for their protection to Buddhist monks and nuns in early India / Gregory Schopen -- Scarecrows, upāsakas, fetuses, and other child monastics in middle-period Indian Buddhism / Amy Paris Langenberg -- The Buddha's "childhood": the foundation for the great departure / Vanessa R. Sasson -- The inheritance of Rāhula: abandoned child, boy monk, ideal son and trainee / Kate Crosby -- The precocious child in Chinese Buddhism / Miriam Levering -- Representing childhood in Chinese Buddhism: The Sujari Jataka in text and image / Winston Kyan -- "What children need": making childhood with technologies of protection and healing / Frances Garrett -- Picturing Buddhism; nurturing Buddhist worldviews through children's books / Karen Derris -- Ordination (Pabbajjā) as going forth? Social bonds and the making of a buddhist monastic /rJeffrey Samuels -- Monk and Boy: becoming a novice in contemporary sipsongpannā / Thomas Borchert -- Buddhism as a vehicle for girls safety and education in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- Superheroes and slapstick: new media and the teaching of Buddhist children in Thailand / Justin McDaniel -- Once we were ... : former child nuns in Taiwan reflecting back / Wei-Yi Cheng -- Zen-boy Ikkyū / Melissa Anne-Marie Curley -- Marrying the "thought of enlightenment": the multivalency of girls' symbolic marriage rites in the Newar Buddhist community of Kathmandu, Nepal / Todd Lewis and Christoph Emmrich -- Children in Himalayan monasteries / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- The Westernization of Tulkus / Elijah Ary -- "Give me my inheritance": western Buddhists raising Buddhist children / Kristin Scheible -- Young Lord Maitreya; the curious case of Jiddu Krishnamurri / Hillary Rodrigues. 
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