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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113416811X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 782 pages
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Download or read book Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka and Taiwan written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wei-Yi Cheng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134168101
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka written by Wei-Yi Cheng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a comparative approach, this fieldwork-based study explores the lives and thoughts of Buddhist nuns in present-day Taiwan and Sri Lanka. The author examines the postcolonial background and its influence on the modern situation, as well as surveying the main historical, economic, and social factors which influence the position of nuns in society. Based on original research, including interviews with nuns in both countries, the book examines their perspectives on controversial issues and in particular those concerning the status of women in Buddhism. Concerns discussed include allegedly misogynist teachings relating to women’s inferior karma, that they cannot become Buddhas, and that nuns have to follow additional rules that monks do not. Bridging the gap between feminist theory and the reality of women in religion, the book makes a distinct contribution to the study of women in Buddhism by focusing on nuns from both of the main wings of Buddhism (Theravada and Mahayana) as well as furthering feminist studies of Buddhism and religion in general.
Author : Wei-Yi Cheng
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka written by Wei-Yi Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yuzhen Li
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Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book Crafting Women's Religious Experience in a Patrilineal Society written by Yuzhen Li and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thubten Chodron
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556433252
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Blossoms of the Dharma written by Thubten Chodron and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to reflect the voices of Buddhist nuns from every major tradition, 14 contributors describe their experiences, explain their order's history, and discuss their lives. 14 photos.
Author : Elise Anne DeVido
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143843149X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns written by Elise Anne DeVido and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the milieu of Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist world and a prominent place in their own country.
Author : Dawn Llewellyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317071077
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Reading Spiritualities written by Dawn Llewellyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of 'sacred text' has undergone radical deconstruction in recent times, reflecting how religion has broken out of its traditional definitions and practices, and how current literary theories have influenced texts inside the religious domain and beyond. Reading Spiritualities presents both commentary and vivid examples of this evolution, engaging with a variety of reading practices that work with traditional texts and those that extend the notion of 'text' itself. The contributors draw on a range of textual sites such as an interview, Caribbean literature, drama and jazz, women's writings, emerging church blogs, Neopagan websites, the reading practices of Buddhist nuns, empirical studies on the reading experiences of Gujarati, Christian and post-Christian women, Chicana short stories, the mosque, cinema, modern art and literature. These examples open up understandings of where and how 'sacred texts' are emerging and being reassessed within contemporary religious and spiritual contexts; and make room for readings where the spiritual resides not only in the textual, but in other unexpected places. Reading Spiritualities includes contributions from Graham Holderness, Ursula King, Michael N. Jagessar, David Jasper, Anthony G. Reddie, Michèle Roberts, and Heather Walton to reflect and encourage the interdisciplinary study of sacred text in the broad arena of the arts and social sciences. It offers a unique and well-focused 'snapshot' of the textual constructions and representations of the sacred within the contemporary religious climate - accessible to the general reader, as well as more specialist interests of students and researchers working in the crossover fields of religious, theological, cultural and literary studies.
Author : Nirmala S. Salgado
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199760012
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice written by Nirmala S. Salgado and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns. Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka as well as on interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's study invites a reconsideration of female renunciation. How do scholarly narratives continue to be complicit in reinscribing colonialist and patriarchal stories about Buddhist women? In what ways have recent debates contributed to the construction of the subject of the Theravada bhikkhuni? How do key Buddhist concepts such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practices? Salgado's provocative analysis of modern discourses about the supposed empowerment of nuns challenges interpretations of female renunciation articulated in terms of secular notions such as ''freedom'' in renunciation, and questions the idea that the higher ordination of nuns constitutes a movement in which female renunciants act as agents seeking to assert their autonomy in a struggle against patriarchal norms. Salgado argues that the concept of a global sisterhood of nuns-an idea grounded in a notion of equality as a universal ideal-promotes a discourse of dominance about the lives of non-Western women and calls for more nuanced readings of the everyday renunciant practices and lives of Buddhist nuns. Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between religion and power, subjectivity and gender, and feminism and postcolonialism.
Author : Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521461290
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Women Under the Bo Tree written by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively examination of female world-renunciation on Buddhist Sri Lanka.
Author : Nirmala S. Salgado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199986231
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice written by Nirmala S. Salgado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist "concepts" such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practice? Salgado's provocative analysis questions the secular notion of the higher ordination of nuns as a political movement for freedom against patriarchal norms. Arguing that the lives of nuns defy translation into a politics of global sisterhood equal before law, she calls for more-nuanced readings of nuns' everyday renunciant practices.
Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Sakyadhītā, Daughters of the Buddha written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and published by Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Buddhist renunciates from East & West talk candidly about their lives.
Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791462546
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Women and Social Justice written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Buddhist women's activism for social change from the time of Buddha to the present day.
Author : Alice Collett
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911407724
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)
Download or read book I Hear Her Words written by Alice Collett and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there gender equality in Buddhist traditions? What do Buddhist texts say about women? This book tells the stories of many inspiring Buddhist women who overcame attempted constraint to gain liberation and become esteemed teachers. An ideal introduction to gender studies in Buddhism and the history of women in the tradition.
Author : Gabriel J. Gomes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469710374
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Discovering World Religions written by Gabriel J. Gomes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discovering World Religions, author Gabriel J. Gomes provides a comprehensive overview of a wide range of world religions, including Native American, African traditional, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and more.
Author : Jeffrey Samuels
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824858581
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia written by Jeffrey Samuels and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes. The editors and contributors are fundamentally concerned with how individual Buddhists make meaning and display this understanding to others. Some practitioners profiled look to the past, lamenting the transformations Buddhism has undergone in recent times, while others embrace these. Some have adopted a “new asceticism,” while others are eager to explore different religious traditions as they think about their own ways of being Buddhist. Arranging the profiles according to these themes—looking backward, forward, inward, and outward—reveals the value of studying individual Buddhists and their idiosyncratic religious backgrounds and attitudes, thus highlighting the diversity of approaches to the practice and study of Buddhism in Asia today. Students and teachers will welcome sections on further readings and additional tables of contents that organize the profiles thematically, as well as by tradition (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana), region, and country.
Author : Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Women Under the Bō Tree written by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
