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Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism

by Rita M. Gross

Pages: 368

Contributors: Rita M. Gross

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Place of Publication: Albany, NY

Publication Year: 1993

Subjects: Women In Buddhism,Women--Religious Aspects--Buddhism,Feminism--Religious Aspects--Buddhism,Buddhism--Doctrines

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

I: Orientations

1: Strategies for a Feminist Revalorization of Buddhism

2: Orientation to Buddhism: Approaches, Basics, and Contours

II: Toward an Accurate and Usable Past

3: Why Bother? What is an Accurate and Usable Past Good For?

4: Sakyadhita, Daughters of the Buddha: Roles and Images of Women in Early Indian Buddhism

5: Do Innate Female Traits and Characteristics Exist? Roles and Images of Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism

6: The Feminine Principle: Roles and Images of Women in Indian and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism

7: Conclusions: Tokens and Heroines

III: The Dharma is Neither Male nor Female

8: Resources for a Buddhist Feminism

9: Setting the Stage: Presuppositions of the Buddhist Worldview

10: Strategies for a Feminist Analysis of Key Buddhist Concepts

11: Gender and Egolessness: Feminist Comments on Basic Buddhist Teachings

13: Gender and Buddha-Nature: Feminist Comments on Third-Turning Teachings and on the Vajrayana

IV: The Dharma is Both Female and Male

14: Verdicts and Judgments: Looking Backward; Looking Forward

15: Androgynous Institutions: Issues for Lay, Monastic, and Yogic Practitioners

16: Androgynous View: New Concerns in Verbalizing the Dharma

Methodological Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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