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

by Rita M. Gross. 368 pgs.

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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
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
I. Orientations
1: Strategies for a Feminist Revalorization of Buddhism 3
2: Orientations to Buddhism: Approaches, Basics, and Contours 7
II. Toward an Accurate and Usable Past: A Feminist Sketch of Buddhist History
3: Why Bother? What Is an Accurate and Usable Past Good For? 17
4: Sakyadhita, Daughters of the Buddha: Roles and Images of Women in Early Indian Buddhism 29
5: Do Innate Female Traits and Characteristics Exist? Roles and Images of Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism 55
6: The Feminine Principle: Roles and Images of Women in Indian and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism 79
7: Conclusions: Heroines and Tokens 115
III. "The Dharnia is Neither Male nor Female": A Feminist Analysis of Key Concepts in Buddhism
8: Resources for a Buddhist Feminism 125
9: Setting the Stage: Presuppositions of the Buddhist Worldview 137
10: Strategies for a Feminist Analysis of Key Buddhist Concepts 153
11: Gender and Egolessness: Feminist Comments on Basic Buddhist Teachings 157
12: Gender and Emptiness: Feminist Comments on Mahayana Teachings 173
13: Gender and Buddha-Nature: Feminist Comments on Third Turning Teachings and the Vajrayana 185
IV: The Dharma is Both Female and Male: Toward an Androgynous Reconstruction of Buddhism
14: Verdicts and Judgments: Looking Backward; Looking Forward 209
15: Androgynous Institutions: Issues for Lay, Monastic and Yogic Practitioners 225
16: Androgynous View: New Concerns in Verbalizing the Dhanna 257
1 : "I Go for Refuge to the Sangha": Relationship and Enlightenment 258
2: Sacred Outlook and Everyday Life 269
3: Spiritual Discipline: Vision and Transcendence in Remaking the World 280
Methodological Appendices
A. Here I Stand: Feminism as Academic Method and as Social Vision 291
B. Religious Experience and the Study of Religion: The History of Religions 305
Notes 319
Bibliography 339
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