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Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's women: tradition, revision, renewal
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Publication Date
c2000
Language
English
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1. Ordination, affiliation, and relation to the sangha. The nuns at the stūpa : inscriptional evidence for the lives and activities of early Buddhist nuns in India / by Nancy J. Barnes
Women in between : becoming religious persons in Thailand / by Monica Lindberg Falk
Voramai Kabilsingh : the first Thai bhikkhunī, and Chatsumarn Kabilsingh : advocate for a bhikkhunī sangha in Thailand / by Martine Batchelor
Buddhist action : lay women and Thai monks / by H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr.
Western Buddhist nuns : a new phenomenon in an ancient tradition / by Bhiḳsuṇī Thubten Chodron
Sakyadhītā in Western Europe : a personal perspective / by Rotraut Wurst
Novice ordination for nuns : the rhetoric and reality of female monasticism in northwest India / by Kim Gutschow
An empowerment ritual for nuns in contemporary Japan / by Paula K.R. Arai.
2. Teachers, teaching, and lineages. Women teachers of women : early nuns "worthy of my confidence" / by Ellison Banks Findly
Achaan Ranjuan : a Thai lay woman as master teacher / by Martine Batchelor
Patterns of renunciation : the changing world of Burmese nuns / by Hiroko Kawanami
An American Zen teacher / by Trudy Goodman
Teaching lineages and land : renunciation and domestication among Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka / by Nirmala S. Salgado
Transformation of a housewife : Dipa Ma Barua and her teachings to Theravāda women / by Amy Schmidt
My dharma teacher died too soon / by James Whitehill.
3. Political and social change. Women changing Tibet, activism changing women / by Serinity Young
The Women's Alliance : catalyzing change in Ladakh / by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Sujātā's army : Dalit Buddhist women and self-emancipation / by Owen M. Lynch
Religious leadership among Maharashtrian women / by Eleanor Zelliot
Jamin Sunim : prison work for a Korean nun, Myohi Sunim : a Korean nun teacher of elderly women, and Pomyong Sunim : flower arranging for the Korean lay / by Martine Batchelor
Women, war, and peace in Sri Lanka / by Tessa Batholomeusz
Mae Chi Boonliang : a Thai nun runs a charitable foundation, and Mae Chi Sansenee : a Thai nun as patroness / by Martine Batchelor
Diversity and race : new koans for American Buddhism / by Janice D. Willis.
4. Art and architecture. From periphery to center : Tibetan women's journey to sacred artistry / by Melissa Kerin
Performing maṇḍalas : Buddhist practice in transition / by Judy Dworin
Women, art, and the Buddhist spirit / by Ann W. Norton
Space as mind/maṇḍala places : Joan Halifax, Tsultrim Allione, and Yvonne Rand / by Sarah D. Buie. 5. Body and health. Sickness and health : becoming a Korean Buddhist shaman / by Hi-ah Park
Tokwang Sunim : a Korean nun as medical practitioner / by Martine Batchelor
How a Buddhist decides whether or not to have children / by Kate Lila Wheeler
Theanvy Kuoch : Buddhism and mental health among Cambodian refugees / by Theany Kuoch
Women's health in Tibetan medicine and Tibet's "first" female doctor / by Vincanne Adams and Dashima Dovchin.
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9780861711659
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