Women in Tibet
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Women in Tibet
Columbia University Press, c2005
- : paper
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-402) and index
Contents of Works
- Ladies of the Tibetan empire (seventh to ninth centuries CE) / Helga Uebach
- The woman illusion? Research into the lives of spiritually accomplished women leaders of the 11th and 12th centuries / Dan Martin
- The autobiography of a medieval hermitess : Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729) / Kurtis R. Schaeffer
- Female oracles in modern Tibet / Hildegard Diemberger
- Outstanding women in Tibetan medicine / Tashi Tsering
- Women in the performing arts : portraits of six contemporary singers / Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy
- The body of a nun : nunhood and gender in contemporary Amdo / Charlene E. Makley
- Women and politics in contemporary Tibet / Robert Barnett
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Filling a gap in the literature, this volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet. Here are queens from the imperial period, yoginis and religious teachers of medieval times, Buddhist nuns, oracles, political workers, medical doctors, and performing artists. Most of the essays focus on the lives of individual women, whether from textual sources or from anthropological data, and show that Tibetan women have apparently enjoyed more freedom than women in many other Asian countries. The book is innovative in resisting both romanticization and hypercriticism of women's status in Tibetan society, attending rather to historical description, and to the question of what is distinctive about women's situations in Tibet, and what is common to both men and women in Tibetan society.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Women in Traditional Tibet Ladies of the Tibetan Empire (Seventh to Ninth Centuries), by Helga Uebach The Woman Illusion? Research into the Lives of Spiritually Accomplished Women Leaders of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by Dan Martin The Autobiography of a Medieval Hermitess: Orgyen Chokyi (1675-1729), by Kurtis R. Schaeffer Part II: Modern Tibetan Women Female Oracles in Modern Tibet, by Hildegard Diemberger Outstanding Women in Tibetan Medicine, by Tashi Tsering Women in the Performing Arts: Portraits of Six Singers, by Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo, by Charlene E Makley Women and Politics in Tibet Today, by Robert Barnett Contributors Appendix Index
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