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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Release : 1988
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Sakyadhītā, Daughters of the Buddha by : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Download or read book Sakyadhītā, Daughters of the Buddha written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Buddhist renunciates from East & West talk candidly about their lives.
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Release : 1901
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Book Synopsis סדר עבודת יום הכפורים by :
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Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Release : 1996-11-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Sisters in Solitude by : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Download or read book Sisters in Solitude written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 1996-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an investigation of the moral precepts and codes of everyday conduct by which ordained women regulated their lives. It takes as its basis the Bhikṣuṇī Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Dharmagupta school, preserved in Chinese translation, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda school, preserved in Tibetan translation. For over two thousand years, Buddhist nuns have quietly embodied specific moral and spiritual values on their path to enlightenment. Contemplative communities offered women both an alternative lifestyle and an avenue for education. Numbering as many as one million at certain periods of history, they have exerted powerful, if often unacknowledged, influence on Asian societies. Sisters in Solitude documents the earliest recorded system of ethics formulated especially for women and presents the first English translations of the original texts. An essential sourcebook for studies on women's religious history and feminist ethics, it details the monastic guidelines that link Buddhist nuns of the different traditions. The texts it contains unite women of many cultures.
Author : Eun-su Cho
Release : 2012-01-02
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen by : Eun-su Cho
Download or read book Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen written by Eun-su Cho. This book was released on 2012-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering hidden histories, this book focuses on Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the fourth century to the present. Today, South Korea's Buddhist nuns have a thriving monastic community under their own control, and they are well known as meditation teachers and social service providers. However, little is known of the women who preceded them. Using primary sources to reveal that which has been lost, forgotten, or willfully ignored, this work reveals various figures, milieux, and activities of female adherents, clerical and lay. Contributors consider examples from the early days of Buddhism in Korea during the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla periods (first millennium CE); the Koryŏ period (982–1392), when Buddhism flourished as the state religion; the Chosŏn period (1392–1910), when Buddhism was actively suppressed by the Neo-Confucian Court; and the contemporary resurgence of female monasticism that began in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Author : Rita M. Gross
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 033/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Buddhism After Patriarchy by : Rita M. Gross
Download or read book Buddhism After Patriarchy written by Rita M. Gross. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
