- Buddhism and the Body: Desire, Disgust, and Transcendence

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An exploration of the ways that Buddhists have constructed, disciplined, despised, and venerated the human body. We will explore the Buddhist body in its various incarnations: the disciplined monastic body of monks and nuns; the hyper-masculine body of the Buddha; the sacred corpses of saints; the body given away in sacrifice; the body as marker of virtue, and vice;  the sexual body; the body transfigured in ritual; and the body analyzed and scrutinized in medical traditions.