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Four Illusions: Candrakirti's Advice for Travelers on the Bodhisattva Path

Book by Karen C. Lang, Candrakirti; Oxford University Press, 2003

Subjects:

?Aryadeva--3rd Cent--Catuohasataka, M?Adhyamika (Buddhism)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...and a fickle temperament, a woman will give herself to any man...opinion of the fickle nature of women. Cullapaduma Jataka Ja II 116 21, no. 193 claims that a woman will give herself to any man...he is. In this story, the Bodhisattva saves the life of a thief whose...expose the deceitful nature of women who entertain their lovers...
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Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life

Book by Laurel Kendall; University of Hawaii Press, 1987

Subjects:

Shamanism--Korea (South), Women--Korea (South)--Religious Life

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Halmoni . An experienced older woman guards the physical and ritual...appropriate blending of old woman and bodhisattva in the shamans portrayal of...has many applications. Women who maintain Buddhist temples...invocations is also a posal . A woman who maintains a private temple...
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Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming against the Stream

Book by Karma Lekshe Tsomo; Curzon Press Limited, 2000

Subjects:

Buddhist Women, Women In Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...concentration jinfanyu a woman living in a monastic community...Jizo Japanese K itigarbha Bodhisattva karma the law of cause and...itigarbha the Earth Store Bodhisattva; in Japan, a protector of women and children Kuan Yin Chinese Avalokitesvara, bodhisattva of compassion lama guru...
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Women, Religion, and Social Change

Book by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Ellison Banks Findly; State University of New York Press, 1985

Subjects:

Social History, Women And Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Nancy Falk, "An Image of Woman in Old Buddhist Literature: the Daughters of M a", in Women and Religion , Judith Plaskow...pp. 105-12; Diana Paul , Women in Buddhism: Images of the...Changing the Female Body: Wise Women and the Bodhisattva Career in Some Mah atnakuasc...
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Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

Book by Paula Kane Robinson Arai; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Buddhist Nuns--Japan, Monastic And Religious Life (Zen Buddhism)--Japan, Monastic And Religious Life Of Women--Japan, Religious Life--S*Ot*Osh*U

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Decline". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol...Changing the Female Body: Wise Women and the Bodhisattva Career in Some Maharatnakutasutras...1975. Sharma Arvind, ed. Women in World Religions . Albany...Spellman Elizabeth. Inessential Woman . Boston: Beacon Press, 1988...

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Bodhisattva Precepts in the Ming Society: Factors Behind Their Success and Propagation

Journal article by William Chu; Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Vol. 13, 2006

Subjects:

Bodhisattvas, Buddhism--Analysis, Confucianism--Analysis, Lamaism--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...stringent standards, the Bodhisattva preceptive apocrypha specifically...Moreover, a man or woman could confer the precepts...demons, lascivious men and women, hermaphrodites, and...tolerance on the part of the Bodhisattva precepts must have been...celebrations of Buddha/Bodhisattvas supposed "birthdays...invocation of Buddhas/Bodhisattvas in his "Zen Precept Procedures...characteristics. That the Bodhisattva precepts played a predominant...
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Chi-Tsang's Sheng-Man Pao-K'U: the True Dharma Doc Trine and the Bodhisattva Ideal

Journal article by Aaron K. Koseki; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 34, 1984

Subjects:

Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...surrounding the definition of her bodhisattva stage in East Asian Buddhism...581. How this structure of bodhisattva practice applies to the two...discussion of the image of women in Buddhism. Hirakawa discusses...Body: Wise Women and the Bodhisattva Career in some Maharatnaku...
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Demonology and Eroticism Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination

Journal article by D. Max Moerman; Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 36, 2009

Subjects:

Cartography, Demons, Epic literature, Japanese culture, Science fiction & fantasy, Women

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...outside they have the faces of bodhisattvas, but on the inside they...something strange about these women and decides one day to take...by false beauty, for the women are in fact rasetsu demons...merchants then pray to the bodhisattva Kannon, who appears as a...Jambudvipa. The rasetsu women resume their demonic form...years later, the rasetsu woman whom Sokara had taken for...
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Chaste and Filial Women in Chinese Historical Writings of the Eleventh Century

Journal article by Richard L. Davis; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001

Subjects:

China--Literature, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...while devoting no chapter to "notable women," does contain the story of a chaste woman who engages in acts of self-mutilation...Woman Lu with the self-sacrifice of Woman Zhou, two of the Tang women mentioned earlier. Woman Li has no biography, merely a story...
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Localising the Universal: Women, Motherhood and the Appeal of Early Theravada Buddhism

Journal article by Barbara Watson Andaya; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002

Subjects:

Motherhood--Religious aspects, Religion and sociology--History, Southeast Asia--Religious aspects, Theravada Buddhism--Social aspects, Women--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...endorsing the view that to be born a woman rather than a man was evidence of an...debates among contemporary Buddhist women, the textual messages are often ambiguous...in ones own language are well-born women who can now read as they wish among...It is tempting to suggest that one woman who may have been exposed to this new...between 1350 and 1500, is that of a woman holding a child. (101) It is thus not difficult to imagine that women would empathise with the grief of Vessantaras...

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Flowing from the Nine-Headed Serpent: Legends Found in Cambodian Literature

Magazine article by Jan Knappert; World and I, Vol. 14, December 1999

Subjects:

Cambodia, Khmers--Religious aspects, Legends--Cambodia, Literature, Storytelling--Cambodia

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Vesandar One time the Puthisath (Bodhisattva) was born in the shape of...Solomon. In the first, two women were arguing over a baby boy...the Bodhisattva. He told the women to each take one of the childs...pull him toward herself. The women both did as they were bade...Bodhisattva decreed that the woman who had released the baby was...
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Gender and Virtue in Indian Buddhism

Magazine article by John Powers; Cross Currents, Vol. 61, December 2011

Subjects:

Buddhism--Social aspects, Lamaism--Social aspects, Pali Text Society--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...positive portrayals of women in Indian Buddhist...Buddhas past lives as a bodhisattva (buddha in training...narratives of the Bodhisattvas past births in which...Birth Stories, the Bodhisattva gives away all or...transformed into a woman in that life as a...near her. The wise Bodhisattva advises the student...become angry when women succumb to their desires...things with which a woman can never be satiated...
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What Went Wrong? Feminism and Freedom from the Prison of Gender Roles

Magazine article by Rita M. Gross; Cross Currents, Vol. 53, Spring 2003

Subjects:

Feminism--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...construct of femaleness, which is why women want to act like men, but men dont want to act like women. It is so much more acceptable for a woman to take on "masculine" traits and tasks...pervasiveness of these patterns than the fact that women now wear trousers everywhere with impunity...
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Embodied Spirituality, Now and Then

Magazine article by Jorge N. Ferrer; Tikkun, Vol. 21, May/Jun 2006

Subjects:

Linguistics, Religion, Rites & ceremonies, Spirituality, Traditions

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...necessarily transpires in the bodies of men and women? Proponents of embodied spiritual practice...expand the traditional Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva vow-i.e., to renounce complete...delivery-to encompass an "integral bodhisattva vow" in which the conscious mind renounces...
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Kyoto Pilgrimage Past and Present

Magazine article by Pamela D. Winfield; Cross Currents, Vol. 59, September 2009

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Description and travel, Kyoto, Japan--Description and travel, Pilgrimages--Forecasts and trends, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Forecasts and trends

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...mountains, these peaks were closed to women before the so-called nyonin kekkai ban...clergy and laity, old and young, men and women throughout history. (9) It even inspired...and imperial progenitrix Amaterasu. Many women also journeyed to Kumano to visit the supposed...

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Tea and Japanese 'Tales' of Pleasing Complexity

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, December 15, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...while the earth trembled. (A kannon, or bodhisattva, is a follower of the Buddha who puts...on the attributes of the compassionate bodhisattva Jizo Bosatsu, who was known as the patron of women in childbirth, and of children, warriors...
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Guarding Tiny Souls: Statues Ease Mothers' Pain after Abortion

Newspaper article by Willis Witter; The Washington Times, November 1, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of my life," said a woman in her mid-20s who...counseling, or speaking with women who have been through...reincarnation. But when women stricken with sorrow...mercy." This popular bodhisattva (Buddha-to-be...business and grieving women can pay up to $1,000...wrote a 27-year-old woman on a wooden prayer board...
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Ghost Soldiers, Elegant Ladies among Gems of Exhibit

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, April 7, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...portrait, "Portrait of a Woman" (Ming dynasty, 17th century...highly formal. "Portrait of a Woman" is near life-size, as...deceased relatives. The "Woman" is painted as a sumptuously...great strength and force. The bodhisattva or guanyin, a follower of...miniature "sleeve roll" "Court Women and Children" by Ding Guanpeng...
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Tibet Shares Exotic Spirit; Buddhist Traditions Strong despite Chinese Rule

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 27, 2002

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Tibet

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...well-dressed, well-fed women and by children. Our Tibetan...uses other than as victuals. Women dress their plaited hair with...offered in the gompas. Nomadic women spin the wool to make blankets...Tibetan marriage custom: One woman marries several men, usually...this rebirth cycle are the bodhisattva, who already have attained...
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The Bulletin

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), October 15, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...at 2340 Grant St. offers Chenrezig (Bodhisattva of Compassion) practice every Sunday...gutenberg.edu. Selah Conference for Women - Nancie Carmichael, former co-publisher...will lead a two-day conference for women Friday and next Saturday, Oct. 22...

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