THE RED THREAD BUDDHIST APPROACHES TO SEXUALITY BERNARD FAURE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEYey 08540 ok CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 ‘The Two Roads 4 Buddhist Sexualities § (CHAPTER ONE ‘The Hermeneutics of Desire 15 Provan Desire 16 ‘The Buddhist Economy of Desire 23 Ascetic Lust 29 ‘The Trend Reversal 39 The Ambivalent Body 54 charm two Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline 64 Law Order, and Libido 65 Sexual Offenses 74 The Rise of Mahayana Precepts 89 cHAPTR THREE The Ideology of Transgression 98 The Rule of Antinomianism 100 Grazy Cloud 111 ‘Transeression—Sublime or Sublimated? 118 Ritual Infractions 124 Feminine Transgression 129 (cHAPTEE FOUR Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes 144 Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism 145 The Demonic Priest 161 The Juridical Background 172 Nyoben 181 Order or Freedom 197 CHAPTER FIVE, Buddhist Homosexualities 207 the New Sodom 207 The Social and Cultural Context(s) 227 ‘The Quest for Origins 233vi contents (CHAPTER SIX Boys to Men 241 ‘The Literary Tradition of the Chigo 241 ‘The "Divine Child” Mystique 249 Head or Tail 265 AFIERTHOUGHTS. 279 Grossany 289 BinurocRarny 293 Ivpex 333