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Author : Linda LaMacchia
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Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Songs and Lives of the Jomo (Nuns) of Kinnaur, Northwest India written by Linda LaMacchia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Jean LaMacchia
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ISBN 13 : 9780493325651
Total Pages : 437 pages
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Download or read book Women's Religious Expression in Tibetan Buddhism written by Linda Jean LaMacchia and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annabella Pitkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816923
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Download or read book Renunciation and Longing written by Annabella Pitkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama wandered like a beggar across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters and living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this ragged beggar-yogi became a revered teacher of the current Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At his death in 1977, he was mourned by Himalayan nuns, Tibetan lamas, and American meditators alike. The myriad surviving stories about Khunu Lama reveal unexpected forms of Tibetan Buddhism, shedding new light on questions of secularism, religion, and what it means to be modern. In Beggar Modern, Annabella Pitkin explores the emotionally charged Tibetan Buddhist imaginaries of renunciation, devotion, and the teacher-student lineage relationship as resources for Tibetan Buddhist approaches to modernity. By examining narrative accounts of the life of a remarkable twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist and focusing on his remembered identity as a renunciant bodhisattva, Pitkin illuminates Tibetan and Himalayan practices of memory, reinvention, and mourning. Refuting longstanding caricatures of Tibetan Buddhist communities as unable to be modern because of their religious commitments, Pitkin shows instead how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Tibetan Buddhists have used precisely the cultural resources that connect them to their past as vital tools for creating new futures"--
Author : Karin Pendle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135848130
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Women in Music written by Karin Pendle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.
Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479803421
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Women in Buddhist Traditions written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist traditions have developed over a period of twenty-five centuries in Asia, and recent decades have seen an unprecedented spread of Buddhism globally. From India to Japan, Sri Lanka to Russia, Buddhist traditions around the world have their own rich and diverse histories, cultures, religious lives, and roles for women. Wherever Buddhism has taken root, it has interacted with indigenous cultures and existing religious traditions. These traditions have inevitably influenced the ways in which Buddhist ideas and practices have been understood and adapted. Tracing the branches and fruits of these culturally specific transmissions and adaptations is as challenging as it is fascinating. Women in Buddhist Traditions chronicles pivotal moments in the story of Buddhist women, from the beginning of Buddhist history until today. The book highlights the unique contributions of Buddhist women from a variety of backgrounds and the strategies they have developed to challenge patriarchy in the process of creating an enlightened society. Women in Buddhist Traditions offers a groundbreaking and insightful introduction to the lives of Buddhist women worldwide.
Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438472579
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver Medalist, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion (Eastern/Western) Category This groundbreaking book explores Buddhist thought and culture, from multiple Buddhist perspectives, as sources for feminist reflection and social action. Too often, when writers apply terms such as "woman," "femininity," and "feminism" to Buddhist texts and contexts, they begin with models of feminist thinking that foreground questions and concerns arising from Western experience. This oversight has led to many facile assumptions, denials, and oversimplifications that ignore women's diverse social and historical contexts. But now, with the tools of feminist analysis that have developed in recent decades, constructs of the feminine in Buddhist texts, imagery, and philosophy can be examined—with the acknowledgment that there are limitations to applying these theoretical paradigms to other cultures. Contributors to this volume offer a feminist analysis, which integrates gender theory and Buddhist perspectives, to Buddhist texts and women's narratives from Asia. How do Buddhist concepts of self and no-self intersect with concepts of gender identity, especially for women? How are the female body, sexuality, and femininity constructed (and contested) in diverse Buddhist contexts? How might power and gender identity be perceived differently through a Buddhist lens? By exploring feminist approaches and representations of "the feminine," including persistent questions about women's identities as householders and renunciants, this book helps us to understand how Buddhist influences on attitudes toward women, and how feminist thinking from other parts of the world, can inform and enlarge contemporary discussions of feminism.
Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438451318
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Eminent Buddhist Women written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women across the centuries and across the Buddhist world. Eminent Buddhist Women reveals the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women through the centuries. Despite the Buddhas own egalitarian values, Buddhism as a religion has been dominated by men for more than two thousand years. With few exceptions, the achievements of Buddhist women have remained hidden or ignored. The narratives in this book call into question the criteria for eminence in the Buddhist tradition and how these criteria are constructed and controlled. Each chapter pays a long-overdue tribute to one woman or a group of women from across the Buddhist world, including the West. Using a variety of sources, from orally transmitted legends to firsthand ethnographic research, contributors examine the key issues women face in their practice of Buddhist ethics, contemplation, and social action. What emerges are Buddhist principles that transcend gender: loving kindness, compassion, wisdom, spiritual attainment, and liberation. In her chapter What Is a Relevant Role Model? Rita Gross describes the need for more stories about Buddhist women, particularly those whose feats are not so fabled as to seem out of reach for contemporary practitioners. This volume advances that objective, mapping the paths of numerous, often lesser-known women who have dedicated their lives to Buddhism and inspired their communities. Buddhadharma Educational and inspirational, this important collection will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike. Hsiao-Lan Hu, author of This-Worldly Nibb?na: A Buddhist-Feminist Social Ethic for Peacemaking in the Global Community
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047428234
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Author : Linda Jean LaMacchia
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Total Pages : 462 pages
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Download or read book Women's Religious Expression in Tibetan Buddhism written by Linda Jean LaMacchia and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 104 pages
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Author : Kim Gutschow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038088
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Being a Buddhist Nun written by Kim Gutschow and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals. A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.
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ISBN 13 : 9788178543482
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Position of Women in Ancient Indian Buddhism written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan A. Silk
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195326849
Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book Managing Monks written by Jonathan A. Silk and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looked at in one light, monastic administrators are at the top of the monastic hierarchy. From another perspective, however they are divorced from the main purpose of monastic life. In this book, Jonathan Silk examines the way in which this question was debated in the formative years of Indian Buddhism.
Author : P. S. Negi Loktus
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ISBN 13 : 9788124608111
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Heritage of the Trans-Himalaya (Kinnaur) written by P. S. Negi Loktus and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9788120834200
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Download or read book Buddha's Not Smiling written by Erik D. Curren and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest In Buddhism Has Exploded In The Last Couple Of Decades, And Millions Of People Around The World View Tibetan Buddhism As The Religion' Most Pure And Authentic Form. Yet, A Political Conflict Among Tibetan Lamas Themselves In Now Poised To Tear The Tibetan Buddhist World Apart And Threaten The Integrity Of Its Thousand-Year-Old Teaching. On August 2, 1993 Rumtek Monastery Was Attacked. Its Monks Were Expelled And The Cloister Was Turned Over To Supporters Of A Body Lama Appointed By The Chinese Government. But Rumtek Was Not In China, And Its Attackers Were Not Communist Troops. Rumtek Was In India, The Refuge For Most Exiled Tibetans. And Its Was Tibetan Lamas And Monks Them Selves Who Lead The Siege. Yet Evidence Shows That Chinese Agents Directly Supported Tibetan Lamas And Monks Who Attached Rumtek Monastery. While A Complete Picture Of This Controversy Has Been Blurred By Media'S Focus On International Buddhist Celebrities, Buddha'S Not Smiling Challenger Readers To Judge For Them Selves The Health Of Tibetan Buddhism Today.
