Innovative Buddhist women : swimming against the stream
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Innovative Buddhist women : swimming against the stream
Curzon, 2000
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Bibliography: p. 329-335
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Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780700712199
Description
Combines the voices of scholars and practitioners in analysing Buddhist women's history. 26 articles document the lives of women who have set in motion changes within Buddhist societies, with analyses of issues such as gender, ethnicity, authority, and class that affect the lives of women in traditional Buddhist cultures and, increasingly, the west.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The world of Buddhist women: Buddhist women in south Asia
- Buddhist women in southeast Asia
- Buddhist women in East Asia
- Buddhist women in the Himalayas
- Buddhist women in North America. Part 2 Compassionate social action - women's role. Epilogue: transforming Buddhist women's role in Buddhism
- strategies.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780700712533
Description
Combines the voices of scholars and practitioners in analysing Buddhist women's history. 26 articles document the lives of women who have set in motion changes within Buddhist societies, with analyses of issues such as gender, ethnicity, authority, and class that affect the lives of women in traditional Buddhist cultures and, increasingly, the west.
Table of Contents
Introduction PART I THE WORLD OF BUDDHIST WOMEN BUDDHIST WOMEN OF SOUTH ASIA Chapter 1 Inaccuracies in Buddhist Women's History Chapter 2 At the Cutting Edge: Theravada Nuns in the Kathmandu Valley Chapter 3 Unity and Diversity Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka Chapter 4 Factions and Fortitude: Buddhist Women in Bangladesh BUDDHIST WOMEN OF SOUTHEAST ASIA Chapter 5 Thammacarini Witthaya: The First Buddhist School for Girls in Thailand Chapter 6 The Status and Values of the Santi Asoke Sikkhamat Chapter 7 Rediscovering Cambodian Buddhist Women of the Past Chapter 8 The Revival of the Don Chee Movement in Cambodia Chapter 9 Khmer Women: Buddhist Survivors Chapter 10 Dam Luu: An Eminent Vietnamese Buddhist Nun BUDDHIST WOMEN OF EAST ASIA Chapter 11 A Case of Ritual Zen: In Gratitude to Ananda Chapter 12 Tiexiangsi: A Gelugpa Nunnery in Contemporary China Chapter 13 Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Shim Ch'ong: Mistress of the Spiritual Domain Chapter 14 Lineage or Family Tree? The Implications for Gender Chapter 15 Ordination, Legitimacy, and Sisterhood: The International Full Ordination Ceremony in Bodhgaya BUDDHIST WOMEN IN THE HIMALAYAS Chapter 16 Of Birds and Wings: Tibetan Nuns and their Encounters with Knowledge Chapter 17 Yeshe's Tibetan Pilgrimage and the Founding of a Himalayan Nunnery Chapter 18 Born Buddhist is Not Enough BUDDHIST WOMEN IN HAWAI'I Chapter 19 Mary Foster: The First Hawaiian Buddhist Chapter 20 Bishop Jikyu Rose: A Tendai Ajari in Hawai'i PART II WOMEN IN COMPASSIONATE SOCIAL ACTION Chapter 21 Buddhism and the Media Chapter 22 Diversity as Practice: Thinking about Race and American Buddhism Chapter 23 Sexual Conduct and Misconduct: Buddhist Ethics in the West Chapter 24 Daylighting the Feminine in American Buddhism Chapter 25 Buddhism, Human Rights, Women's Rights, and Democracy Chapter 26 Engaged Buddhism: Moving and Recreating Women's Stories Chapter 27 Inner Transformation for World Peace Epilogue Transforming Women's Position in Buddhism: Strategies
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