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 | Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual by Ed Young Serinity Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-415-91483-3 / 0415914833 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91483-3 / 9780415914833 The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory, | |