Women In Buddhist Tradition

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479803415

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Women in Buddhist Traditions by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Pdf

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 : Alice Collett
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781911407720

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I Hear Her Words by Alice Collett Pdf

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 : Diana Y. Paul,Frances Wilson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520054288

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Women in Buddhism by Diana Y. Paul,Frances Wilson Pdf

"In seeking to explore the interrelationships between, and mutual influence of, varieties of sexual stereotypes and religious views of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, Women in Buddhism succeeds in drawing our attention to matters of philosophical importance. Paul examines the 'image' of women which arise in a number of Buddhist texts associated with Mahayana and finds that, while ideally the tradition purports to be egalitarian, in actual practice it often betrayed a strong misogynist prejudice. Sanskrit and Chinese texts are organized by theme and type, progressing from those which treat the traditionally orthodox and negative to those which set forth a positive consideration of soteriological paths for women. . . . In Women in Buddhism, Diana Paul may be forcing our consideration of the problem of female enlightenment. Thus the main purport and accomplishment of her scholarship is revolutionary."—Philosophy East and West

Author : Thammananthā (Phiksunī),Chatsumarn Kabilsingh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X002421479

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Thai Women in Buddhism by Thammananthā (Phiksunī),Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Pdf

"Thai Women in Buddhism chronicles the history of these women and suggests broader possibilities for women's involvement.

Author : Ellison Banks Findly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X004438022

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Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women by Ellison Banks Findly Pdf

A diverse array of scholars, activists, and practitioners explores how women are bringing about the change in the forms, practices, and institutions of Buddhism.

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438451305

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Eminent Buddhist Women by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Pdf

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 Buddha’s 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

Author : Barbara Ambros
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479827626

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Women in Japanese Religions by Barbara Ambros Pdf

A comprehensive history of women in Japanese religious traditions Scholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious traditions treat women. Much existing scholarship depicts Japan’s religious traditions as mere means of oppression. But this view raises a question: How have ambivalent and even misogynistic religious discourses on gender still come to inspire devotion and emulation among women? In Women in Japanese Religions, Barbara R. Ambros examines the roles that women have played in the religions of Japan. An important corrective to more common male-centered narratives of Japanese religious history, this text presents a synthetic long view of Japanese religions from a distinct angle that has typically been discounted in standard survey accounts of Japanese religions. Drawing on a diverse collection of writings by and about women, Ambros argues that ambivalent religious discourses in Japan have not simply subordinated women but also given them religious resources to pursue their own interests and agendas. Comprising nine chapters organized chronologically, the book begins with the archeological evidence of fertility cults and the early shamanic ruler Himiko in prehistoric Japan and ends with an examination of the influence of feminism and demographic changes on religious practices during the “lost decades” of the post-1990 era. By viewing Japanese religious history through the eyes of women, Women in Japanese Religions presents a new narrative that offers strikingly different vistas of Japan’s pluralistic traditions than the received accounts that foreground male religious figures and male-dominated institutions.

Author : Sameer Das Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210613399

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Women in Buddhist Tradition by Sameer Das Gupta Pdf

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136114182

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Innovative Buddhist Women by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Pdf

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.

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791484272

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Buddhist Women and Social Justice by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Pdf

This book on engaged Buddhism focuses on women working for social justice in a wide range of Buddhist traditions and societies. Contributors document attempts to actualize Buddhism's liberating ideals of personal growth and social transformation. Dealing with issues such as human rights, gender-based violence, prostitution, and the role of Buddhist nuns, the work illuminates the possibilities for positive change that are available to those with limited power and resources. Integrating social realities and theoretical perspectives, the work utilizes feminist interpretations of Buddhist values and looks at culturally appropriate means of instigating change.

Author : Rita M. Gross
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791414035

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Buddhism After Patriarchy by Rita M. Gross Pdf

This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future. The author completes the Buddhist historical record by discussing women, usually absent from histories of Buddhism, and she provides the first feminist analysis of the major concepts found in Buddhist religion. Gross demonstrates that the core teachings of Buddhism promote gender equity rather than male dominance, despite the often sexist practices found in Buddhist institutions throughout history.

Author : Marianne Dresser
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556432033

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Buddhist Women on the Edge by Marianne Dresser Pdf

As Buddhism is assimilated into the West, it is imperative that women reshape its patriarchal structures and carve out a fully legitimate, empowering position for themselves. Marianne Dresser brings together the likes of Pema Chodron, Tsultrim Allione, and bell hooks, 30 women in all, who are doing just that. Writers, nuns, scholars, priests--even a martial arts master and a private investigator--discuss women in Buddhism in a range of essays. Several pieces question the suppression of emotion required for selflessness, appealing to the undeniable reality of day-to-day living. Others discuss their experiences as women in Buddhism, whether as nuns or as lay practitioners. Still others address the history of women in Buddhism, racial questions, meditation, poetry, compassion, social activism, and sexual orientation. Most of these writers have been in Buddhism for two or three decades and offer a wealth of experience and insights, targeted at women readers but no less valuable to men.

Author : Pascale Engelmajer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317617990

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Women in Pāli Buddhism by Pascale Engelmajer Pdf

The Pāli tradition presents a diverse and often contradictory picture of women. This book examines women’s roles as they are described in the Pāli canon and its commentaries. Taking into consideration the wider socio-religious context and drawing from early brahmanical literature and epigraphical findings, it contrasts these descriptions with the doctrinal account of women’s spiritual abilities. The book explores gender in the Pāli texts in order to delineate what it means to be a woman both in the context in which the texts were composed and in the context of their ultimate goal - that of achieving escape from the round of rebirths. The critical investigation focuses on the internal relationships and dynamics of one tradition and employs a novel methodology, which the author calls "critical sympathy". This assumes that the tradition’s teaching is valid for all, in particular that its main goal, nibbāṇa, is accessible to all human beings. By considering whether and how women’s roles fit within this path, the author examines whether women have spiritual agency not only as bhikkhunīs (Buddhist nuns), but also as wives and mothers. It offers a new understanding that focuses on how the tradition construes women’s traditional roles within an interdependent community. It aims to understand how what many scholars have seen as contradictory and inconsistent characterizations of women in Buddhism have been accepted and endorsed by the Pāli tradition. With an aim to show that the Pāli canon offers an account of women that is doctrinally coherent and consistent with its sociological facts, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Buddhism and Asian Religion.

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438472577

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Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Pdf

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
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791430898

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Sisters in Solitude by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Pdf

Provides the first English translation of the Tibetan and Chinese texts on monastic discipline for Buddhist nuns and presents a comparative study of the two texts. An important contribution for studies of women's history, feminist philosophy, women's studies, women in religion, and feminist ethics.