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Taiwan s Buddhist Nuns
Author | : Elise Anne DeVido |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781438431499 |
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Explores the milieu of Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist world and a prominent place in their own country.
Passing the Light
Author | : Chün-fang Yü |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824837983 |
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The term “revival” has been used to describe the resurgent vitality of Buddhism in Taiwan. Particularly impressive is the quality and size of the nun’s order: Taiwanese nuns today are highly educated and greatly outnumber monks. Both characteristics are unprecedented in the history of Chinese Buddhism and are evident in the Incense Light community (Xiangguang). Passing the Light is the first in-depth case study of the community, which was founded in 1974 and remains a small but influential order of highly educated nuns who dedicate themselves to teaching Buddhism to lay adults. The work begins with a historical survey of Buddhist nuns in China, based primarily on the sixth-century biographical collection Lives of the Nuns and stories of nuns in subsequent centuries. This is followed by discussions on the early history of the Incense Light community; the life of Wuyin, one of its most prominent leaders; and the crucial role played by Buddhist studies societies on college campuses, where many nuns were first introduced to Incense Light. Later chapters look at the curriculum and innovative teaching methods at the Incense Light seminary and the nuns’ efforts to teach Buddhism to adults. The work ends with portraits of individual nuns, providing details on their backgrounds, motivations for becoming nuns, and the problems or setbacks they have encountered both within and without the Incense Light community. This engaging study enriches the literature on the history of Buddhist nuns, seminaries, and education, and will find an appreciative audience among scholars and students of Chinese religion, especially Buddhism, as well as those interested in questions of religion and modernity and women and religion.
Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781134168118 |
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TAIWAN S BUDDHIST NUNS
Author | : ELISE A. DE VIDO |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 8887195595 |
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Buddhist Nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka
Author | : Wei-Yi Cheng |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781134168101 |
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Taking a comparative approach, this fieldwork-based study explores the lives and thoughts of Buddhist nuns in present-day Taiwan and Sri Lanka. The author examines the postcolonial background and its influence on the modern situation, as well as surveying the main historical, economic, and social factors which influence the position of nuns in society. Based on original research, including interviews with nuns in both countries, the book examines their perspectives on controversial issues and in particular those concerning the status of women in Buddhism. Concerns discussed include allegedly misogynist teachings relating to women’s inferior karma, that they cannot become Buddhas, and that nuns have to follow additional rules that monks do not. Bridging the gap between feminist theory and the reality of women in religion, the book makes a distinct contribution to the study of women in Buddhism by focusing on nuns from both of the main wings of Buddhism (Theravada and Mahayana) as well as furthering feminist studies of Buddhism and religion in general.
Encountering Modernity
Author | : Meei-Hwa Chern |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : IND:30000078389479 |
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Crafting Women s Religious Experience in a Patrilineal Society
Author | : Yuzhen Li |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : IND:30000078389412 |
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Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice
Author | : Nirmala S. Salgado |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199760015 |
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Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns. Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka as well as on interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's study invites a reconsideration of female renunciation. How do scholarly narratives continue to be complicit in reinscribing colonialist and patriarchal stories about Buddhist women? In what ways have recent debates contributed to the construction of the subject of the Theravada bhikkhuni? How do key Buddhist concepts such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practices? Salgado's provocative analysis of modern discourses about the supposed empowerment of nuns challenges interpretations of female renunciation articulated in terms of secular notions such as ''freedom'' in renunciation, and questions the idea that the higher ordination of nuns constitutes a movement in which female renunciants act as agents seeking to assert their autonomy in a struggle against patriarchal norms. Salgado argues that the concept of a global sisterhood of nuns-an idea grounded in a notion of equality as a universal ideal-promotes a discourse of dominance about the lives of non-Western women and calls for more nuanced readings of the everyday renunciant practices and lives of Buddhist nuns. Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between religion and power, subjectivity and gender, and feminism and postcolonialism.