Meeting The Great Bliss Queen if the first book to illuminate the surprising parallels and meaningful differences between the feminists and Buddhist ideas. Using the Great Bliss Queen, a Buddhist figure of enlightenment, as a focal point, Meeting the Great Bliss Queen explores how Buddhist philosophy and practice can help Western women understand themselves in new and empowering ways.
| Acknowledgments |
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xi | |
| Preface |
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xiii | |
| Terms of the Discussion |
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Introduction: Opening the Conversation and Meeting the Great Bliss Queen |
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3 | (22) |
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Persons: Then and Now, Here and There |
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25 | (36) |
| Practice and Theory |
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Mindfulness and Subjectivity |
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61 | (28) |
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Gain or Drain? Compassion and the Self-Other Boundary |
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89 | (34) |
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Self: One Exists, the Other Doesn't |
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123 | (26) |
| Women and the Great Bliss Queen |
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Nondualism and the Great Bliss Queen |
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149 | (21) |
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Becoming the Great Bliss Queen: Her Ritual |
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170 | (25) |
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195 | (12) |
| Notes |
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207 | (20) |
| Glossary |
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227 | (56) |
| Bibliography |
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283 | (20) |
| Index |
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303 | |
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