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Tables of Contents for The Red Thread
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
1
The Two Roads
4
4
Buddhist Sexualities
8
7
The Hermeneutics of Desire
15
49
Protean Desire
16
7
The Buddhist Economy of Desire
23
6
Ascetic Lust
29
10
The Trend Reversal
39
15
The Ambivalent Body
54
10
Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline
64
34
Law, Order, and Libido
65
9
Sexual Offenses
74
15
The Rise of Mahayana Precepts
89
9
The Ideology of Transgression
98
46
The Rule of Antinomianism
100
11
Crazy Cloud
111
7
Transgression---Sublime or Sublimated?
118
6
Ritual Infractions
124
5
Feminine Transgression
129
15
Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes
144
63
Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism
145
16
The Demonic Priest
161
11
The Juridical Background
172
9
Nyobon
181
16
Order or Freedom
197
10
Buddhist Homosexualities
207
34
The New Sodom
207
20
The Social and Cultural Context(s)
227
6
The Quest for Origins
233
8
Boys to Men
241
38
The Literary Tradition of the Chigo
241
8
The ``Divine Child'' Mystique
249
16
Head or Tail
265
14
Afterthoughts
279
10
Glossary
289
4
Bibliography
293
40
Index
333