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Virtuous Bodies - The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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Virtuous Bodies - The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Series: AAR Cultural Criticism Series
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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 Buddhist
text-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 into contact 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 recoveryand suspicion in order to
explore the ethical resources Buddhism offers to scholars and
religious practitioners interested in the embodied nature of
ethical ideals.
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