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Author : Amruta Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Women in Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X002560293
Author : Bimala Churn Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Women in Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X030117060
Author : Pascale Engelmajer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317617990
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780674259195
A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women. The Therīgāthā is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally collected as part of the Pali canon of Buddhist scripture. These poems were written by some of the first Buddhist women—therīs—honored for their religious achievements. Through imaginative verses about truth and freedom, the women recount their lives before ordination and their joy at attaining liberation from samsara. Poems of the First Buddhist Women offers startling insights into the experiences of women in ancient times that continue to resonate with modern readers. With a spare and elegant style, this powerful translation introduces us to a classic of world literature.
Author : Meena V. Talim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhist literature, Pali
ISBN : 9380852460
Author : Alice Collett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199326044
This volume is a broad-ranging comparative study with translations of texts, sections of texts and textual fragments that are concerned with women in early Indian Buddhism, including study of texts in Gandhari, Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Tibetan and Sinhala.
Author : Kathryn R. Blackstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136805691
A detailed exploration of the quest for liberation on the part of the early bhikkunis. Only text in the Buddhist tradition of known female authorship. Important to anyone investigating women's own perspective on their religion. Also provides a clear statement about how renunciants understand nibbana.
Author : Karen Muldoon-Hules
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498511469
For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study uses ten stories from the Avadānaśataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns’ hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.
Author : Isaline Blew Horner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015000662281
Author : Julie Melnyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944874
First published in 1998. This collection of original essays identifies and analyzes 19th-century women's theological thought in all its diversity, demonstrating the ways that women revised, subverted, or rejected elements of masculine theology in creating theologies of their own. While women's religion has been widely studied, this is the only collection of essays that examines 19th-century women's theology as such A substantial introduction clarifies the relationships between religion and theology and discusses the barriers to women's participation in theological discourse as well as the ways women overcame or avoided these barriers. The essays analyze theological ideas in a variety of genres. The first group of essays discusses women's nonfiction prose, including women's devotional writings on the Apocalypse; devotional prose by Christina Rossetti and its similarities to the work of Hildegard von Bingen; periodical prose by Anna Jameson and Julia Wedgwood; and the letters of Harriet and Jemima Newman, sisters of John Henry Newman. Other essays examine the novel, presenting analysis of the theologies of novelists Emma Jane Worboise, Charlotte M. Yonge, and Mary Arnold Ward. Further essays discuss the theological ideas of two purity reformers, Josephine Butler and Ellice Hopkins, while the final essays move beyond Victorian Christianity to examine spiritualist and Buddhist theology by women This collection will be important to students and scholars interested in Victorian culture and ideas-literary critics, historians, and theologians-and particularly to those in women's studies and religious studies.
Author : Ranjini Obeyesekere
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791489925
A fascinating collection about Buddhist women translated from the thirteenth-century Sinhala Buddhist text, the Saddharmaratnāvaliya, these stories provide insights into the social status and roles of women in medieval India and Sri Lanka and the Buddhist doctrinal ideal. They also reflect the changes that took place as the Buddhist position on gender and female sexuality accommodated the social realities of the time. Translating, contextualizing, and commenting on the narratives, Ranjini Obeyesekere highlights the differences in perspective between the celibate monks who were the literary authors of the Saddharmaratnāvaliya and the social world of their audience.
Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438451329
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.
Author : Steven Collins
Publisher : Silkworm Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630418335
This selection of essays, originally published between 1988 and 2010, demonstrates that in the study of Buddhism a concern with detailed accuracy in philological and textual specifics can be combined with an attempt to deal with wider (and difficult) philosophical and sociological issues. The first part, Pali Literature, deals with the historical formation of the Pali Canon, with the continuing oral aspects of Pali texts, and, looking at the entire range of Pali texts, with the question “What is Literature in Pali?” The second part, The theory and Practice of Not-self, looks at the Buddhist denial of self as both a philosophical position and as a form of practice, one in which a process of self-transformative behavioral and psychological training is seen to culminate in the realization that there is no self underlying the ever-changing moments of experience. The third part, Buddhism and Society, has two essays reflecting on and extending Louis Dumont’s comparative theorizing about the individual and society in East and West, and a final contemporary treatment of Buddhist “nuns” (mae chi) in Thravāda Buddhism, both in general and specifcally as active in higher education in Bangkok. The three essays attempt to build on but go beyond the work of Dumont, and behind him Max Weber, in thinking about what they would call “world-renunciation” as a phenomenon of society and culture.
Author : Kornvipa Boonsue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015016931654
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2024 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89104097522
