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1. NEW BOOK> Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism, by José I. Cabezón
2. NEW BOOK> Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical and Administrative Designations

NEW BOOK> Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism, by José I. Cabezón

by A. Charles Muller

Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism, by José I. Cabezón

Wisdom Publications

Hardcover

632 pages, 6 x 9 inches

$39.95

ISBN 978161429350

https://www.wisdompubs.org/book/sexuality-classical-south-asian-buddhism

In this extremely readable book, Jose Cabezon, the XIVth Dalai Lama Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, takes us on a tour-de-force journey through Buddhist literature. More than twenty-five years in the making, this detailed sourcebook on the depiction of sexual identity, desire, restriction, and deviance in the classical South Asian traditions is filled with both engaging translations and original and provocative analysis. Cabezón speaks not as a distant observer but from within the tradition as a Buddhist “theologian,” keeping the material relevant to the modern reader, but he does so with a steady and unsentimental gaze. His knowledge is so broad that he is able to marshal an incredible array of scriptures, legal texts, and philosophical treatises that will be of immense interest not only to scholars of both Buddhism and gender studies but also to lay readers who want to learn more about traditional Buddhist attitudes toward sex. This singular book will stand as a landmark in the field for many years to come.

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NEW BOOK> Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical and Administrative Designations

by A. Charles Muller

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical and Administrative Designations
by Hua Linfu (Author), Paul D. Buell (Author), Paul U. Unschuld (Editor)
The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This second book in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2,158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and use of pharmaceutical substances.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291966

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