The Red Thread

Bernard Faure is Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Immediacy, Chan Insights and Oversights, and Visions of Power (all from Princeton University Press).

Introduction The Two Roads Buddhist Sexualities Ch. 1 The Hermeneutics of Desire Protean Desire The Buddhist Economy of Desire Ascetic Lust The Trend Reversal The Ambivalent Body Ch. 2 Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline Law, Order, and Libido Sexual Offenses The Rise of Mahayana Precepts Ch. 3 The Ideology of Transgression The Rule of Antinomianism Crazy Cloud Transgression - Sublime or Sublimated? Ritual Infractions Feminine Transgression Ch. 4 Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism The Demonic Priest The Juridical Background Nyobon Order or Freedom Ch. 5 Buddhist Homosexualities The New Sodom The Social and Cultural Context(s) The Quest for Origins Ch. 6 Boys to Men The Literary Tradition of the Chigo The "Divine Child" Mystique Head or Tail Afterthoughts Glossary Bibliography Index