The Red Thread

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