Buddhist Women Across Cultures
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Buddhist Women Across Cultures
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1999-04-01
Buddhist Women Across Cultures written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-01 with Philosophy categories.
Illuminates the lives and thought of women in Buddhist cultures, integrating them more fully into the feminist conversation.
Buddhist Women Across Cultures
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: Suny Press
Release Date : 1999
Buddhist Women Across Cultures written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by Suny Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Philosophy categories.
Illuminates the lives and thought of women in Buddhist cultures, integrating them more fully into the feminist conversation.
Buddhist Women Across Cultures Realisation
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Author : E.T. Kramaleksh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-10-01
Buddhist Women Across Cultures Realisation written by E.T. Kramaleksh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-01 with Buddhist women categories.
Buddhist Women And Social Justice
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Buddhist Women And Social Justice written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.
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.
Buddhist Feminisms And Femininities
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Buddhist Feminisms And Femininities written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Religion categories.
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.
Eminent Buddhist Women
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2014-08-25
Eminent Buddhist Women written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-25 with Religion categories.
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
Women In Buddhist Traditions
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-12-22
Women In Buddhist Traditions written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-22 with Religion categories.
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.
Innovative Buddhist Women
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Innovative Buddhist Women written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Social Science categories.
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.
Sisters In Solitude
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Sisters In Solitude written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Religion categories.
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.
Women And Monastic Buddhism In Early South Asia
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Author : Garima Kaushik
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-12
Women And Monastic Buddhism In Early South Asia written by Garima Kaushik and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-12 with History categories.
This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category—thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse—this monograph examines their sustained role in the larger context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms their agency. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members, etc. within Buddhism. The volume also investigates the individual experiences of the members, and their equations and relationships at different levels—with the Samgha at large, with their own respective Bhikşu or Bhikşunī Sangha, with the laity, and with members of the same gender (both lay and monastic). It rereads, reconfigures and reassesses historical data in order to arrive at a new understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which it developed and flourished. Bringing together archaeological, epigraphic, art historical, literary as well as ethnographic data, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Buddhism, gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, and South Asian studies.