Buddhism and the formation of the religious body
A Foucauldian approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5778943 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Voyce (0000-0003-0972-7479, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Pages | 433-461 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0582-3226 • E-ISSN: 2343-4937 |
| Publisher | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.30674/scripta.67398 |
| OpenAlex | W2121832475 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Poststructuralist debates around the body have demonstrated how our knowledge of the body is constituted in specific cultural and historical circumstances and in the context of particular relations of power. This article develops this approach to the body in Buddhism and thus attempts to show how the body has been represented within different discourses in Buddhist texts. Implicit in this account is the remedying of the failure in some Buddhist scholarship to recognise different types of bodies (negative and positive) and to show how these aspects of the body, as enumerated by texts, operate together to constitute forms of identities capable of being constituted within different historical moments out of the pressure of new social and material changes. At the same time the body is seen as being capable of self modification in terms of that discourse. The term 'body' is used here in the sense that it implies not only a physical aspect (flesh, bones, liquids etc.), but that it is connected to various cognitive and emotional capacities as outlined in the khandhas (see below) explanation of the human constitution. The author's concern in his treatment of the body is to avoid the problems of psychological analysis, as this form of analysis often implies the existence of a psyche or soul along with the ideas of complete individual self-determination
Physical body · Psyche · Soul · Chinese history and philosophy · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Sour Grapes
Contemporary Forms of Askesis and the Return of Spiritual Exercises
Buddhist Hermeneutics
The Authority of the Master in the Analects
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The mind‐body relationship in Pāli Buddhism
Self-Awareness without a Self
The Forms of Power
Buddhism and the Mythology of Evil
Natural Symbols
The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary
Technologies of the Self
Mandala of the Self
Authority and Legitimacy
Chan Insights and Oversights
Magic in the Monastery
Causality
Selfless Persons
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |