Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream

by Tsomo; Karma Lekshe

• ISBN13: 9780700712533
• ISBN10: 0700712534
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-07-25
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This book combines the voices of scholars and practitioners in documenting and analyzing Buddhist women's history. It addresses many gaps in the documentation of Buddhist women's experience. The 26 articles - written by a range of Asian, Asian American, and western Buddhists '- document the lives of women who, individually or collectively, have set in motion changes within Buddhist societies. The articles include analyses of issues such as gender, ethnicity, authority, and class that affect the lives of women in traditional Buddhist cultures and, increasingly, the west. The book is unique in analyzing Buddhist women's historical experience in different Buddhist cultures and placing it side by side with western perspectives.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. viii
Glossary	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Notes	p. xxvii
The World of Buddhist Women	p. 1
Inaccuracies in Buddhist Women's History	p. 5
Notes	p. 11
At the Cutting Edge Theravāda Nuns in the Kathmandu Valley	p. 13
Notes	p. 29
Unity and Diversity Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka	p. 30
Notes	p. 40
Factions and Fortitude: Buddhist Women in Bangladesh	p. 42
Notes	p. 56
Thammacarini Witthaya: The First Buddhist School for Girls in Thailand	p. 61
Notes	p. 70
The Status and Values of the Santi Asoke Sikkhamat	p. 72
Notes	p. 82
Rediscovering Cambodian Buddhist Women of the Past	p. 84
Notes	p. 90
The Revival of the Don Chee Movement in Cambodia	p. 91
Khmer Women: Buddhist Survivors	p. 96
Notes	p. 103
Dam Luu: An Eminent Vietnamese Buddhist Nun	p. 104
Notes	p. 120
A Case of Ritual Zen: In Gratitude to ānanda	p. 123
Notes	p. 129
Tiexiangsi: A Gelugpa Nunnery in Contemporary China	p. 130
Glossary	p. 138
Notes	p. 139
Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Shim Ch'ông: Mistress of the Spiritual Domain	p. 142
Notes	p. 151
Lineage or Family Tree?: The Implications for Gender	p. 154
Notes	p. 166
Ordination, Legitimacy, and Sisterhood: The International Full Ordination Ceremony in Bodhgaya	p. 168
Notes	p. 194
Of Birds and Wings: Tibetan Nuns and Their Encounters with Knowledge	p. 201
Notes	p. 211
Yeshe's Tibetan Pilgrimage and the Founding of a Himalayan Nunnery	p. 212
Notes	p. 225
Born Buddhist is Not Enough	p. 229
Mary Foster: The First Hawaiian Buddhist	p. 235
Notes	p. 246
Bishop Jikyu Rose: A Tendai Ajari in Hawai'I	p. 249
Notes	p. 261
Women in Compassionate Social Action	p. 263
Buddhism and the Media	p. 265
Notes	p. 276
Diversity as Practice: Thinking About Race and """"American"""" Buddhism	p. 277
Notes	p. 283
Sexual Conduct and Misconduct: Buddhist Ethics in the West	p. 285
Notes	p. 292
Daylighting the Feminine in American Buddhism	p. 294
Notes	p. 301
Buddhism, Human Rights, Women's Rights, and Democracy	p. 302
Notes	p. 311
Engaged Buddhism: """"Moving"""" and Recreating Women's Stories	p. 312
Notes	p. 318
Inner Transformation for World Peace	p. 319
Epilogue Transforming Women's Position in Buddhism: Strategies	p. 326
Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 336
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