Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography

by JonathanA.Silk (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $66.35

  Explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. This book investigates the psychological and anthropological understandings of the tale of mother-son incest in light of psychological and anthropological understandings of incest.