female and buddhism - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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

Book by Rita M. Gross; State University of New York Press, 1993

Subjects:

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Greenwood, 1991. Gross Rita M. "Buddhism After Patriarchy." In After Patriarchy...pp. 65-86. -----. "Buddhism and Feminism: Toward Their Mutual...The Dharma is Neither Male nor Female: Buddhism on Gender and Liberation." In...
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Buddhism: A Modern Perspective

Book by Charles S. Prebish; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...upasaka --A male lay disciple in Buddhism. upasam pada --Full ordination...Karmavacana procedure. upasika --A female lay disciple in Buddhism. upaya --Literally "skill...complex and difficult teachings of Buddhism understandable to persons of...
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The Path of the Buddha: Buddhism Interpreted by Buddhists

Book by Kenneth W. Morgan; Ronald Press, 1956

Subjects:

Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the Vedas. Upasaka--male lay devotee of Buddhism. Upasika--female lay devotee of Buddhism. Uposatha--the fortnightly ceremonies...the Diamond Cutter Sutra; important in Zen Buddhism. Vajradakini Tantra--the Tantra of the...
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Buddhism in America

Book by Richard Hughes Seager; Columbia University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Buddhism--United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...powerful historical women and female bodhisattvas and dharma protectors in Buddhism whom Gross identified as...Many Buddhists considered Buddhism Beyond Patriarchy highly...helped to do for American Buddhism what Mary Daly Beyond God...
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Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender

Book by José Ignacio Cabezón; State University of New York Press, 1992

Subjects:

Buddhism--Doctrines, Sex--Religious Aspects--Buddhism, Women--Religious Aspects--Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...section 2 . 47. Lady Chin-kuo is very interesting as a window through which we can learn about female patronage and participation in Sung Buddhism. In another essay prepared for the University of Illinois Project on the Tang-Sung Transition...

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Keeping the Faith: Thai Buddhism at the Crossroads

Journal article by Jim Taylor; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 18, 2003

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Keeping the Faith: Thai Buddhism at the Crossroads (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...suggesting that Thai Buddhism needs to be linked to...the Sangha (male and female monastic orders). The assumption is that Thai Buddhism is in a state of "crisis...monastic order (male and female). This engaged "here-and-now" Buddhism (espoused by the well...
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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

...experience also linked elite females in a very personal way...Indeed, the way in which Buddhism generally mined texts...represented a unique female contribution to the...the institutions of Buddhism was critical, for without...Bartholomeusz, The Female Mendicant in Buddhist...in Cabezon ed., Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender...
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Buddhism and Christianity in Competition? Religious and Ethnic Identity in Karen Communities of Northern Thailand

Journal article by Roland Platz; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 34, 2003

Subjects:

Buddhism, Christianity, Ethnicity, Lamaism, Thailand--Religious aspects, Thailand--Social aspects, Thais

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...pastor. Compared to Animism and Buddhism (particularly the latter...religious life. By contrast, in Buddhism monks and elder men are the...context there are no young or female specialists. If Karen villagers...village, had converted to Buddhism. Insistent attempts to proselytise...
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Esoteric Buddhism in Southeast Asia in the Light of Recent Scholarship

Journal article by Hiram Woodward; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 35, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Indian esoteric Buddhism: A social history of the Tantric movement (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Esoteric Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism are both valid names, the...paramitayana) Mahayana Buddhism that historically preceded...incorporating union with a female partner and a belief in a...the male figures but to the females in their embrace, the mars...sustained Perfection Path Buddhism weakened. Then a new class...
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The Sociological Implications for Contemporary Buddhism in the United Kingdom: Socially Engaged Buddhism, a Case Study

Journal article by Phil Henry; Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Vol. 13, 2006

Subjects:

Buddhism--Analysis, Buddhism--Social aspects, Civilization, Modern--Social aspects, Lamaism--Analysis, Lamaism--Social aspects, Modern culture--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Sociological Implications for Contemporary Buddhism in the United Kingdom: Socially Engaged Buddhism, a Case Study. by Phil Henry Introduction...addressed the developments of a Western Buddhism as opposed to Buddhism in the West. As...

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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

...much of traditional Buddhism is "androcentric and...and portray birth as a female as the result of evil...consequence, while females who engage in outstanding...4.) Rita Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A...and Reconstruction of Buddhism (Albany: State University...positive portrayals of female characters include the...
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Vets Connect, Heal at All-female Retreat

Magazine article by Kelly Von Lunen; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 97, March 2010

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Females, Iraq War-2003, Sex crimes, Women

Collections: Entire Library

...Zen master (teacher of Zen Buddhism), he teaches and writes...role of Western psychology, Buddhism and the community in rehabilitating...Bobrow recognized that female vets often struggle with...various units. "Im not around females that much," she said...not one to get along with females too well. But it was so...well just because you are a female." Following the retreat...
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Female Sexuality Today: Challenging Cultural Repression

Magazine article by Robert T. Francoeur, Raymond J. Noonan, Beldina Opiyo-Omolo, Jakob Pastoetter; Cross Currents, Vol. 54, Fall 2004

Subjects:

Cultural psychiatry--Forecasts and trends, Women--Sexual behavior, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...loveplay, fear of touching the female and male genitals (except...penetration), unscientific fear of female sexual secretions, and the imposition on females of painful sexual practices, including "dry sex," female genital mutilation, "salt...affiliation and 47% claiming Buddhism, Neo-Confucian reproduction...
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The Buddhist Health Study: Meditation on Love and Compassion as Features of Religious Practice

Magazine article by Bruce M. Sullivan, Bill Wiist, Heidi Wayment; Cross Currents, Vol. 60, June 2010

Subjects:

American Buddhists--Health aspects, American Buddhists--Surveys, Buddhism--Health aspects, Buddhism--Social aspects, Buddhists in the United States--Health aspects, Buddhists in the United States--Surveys, Lamaism--Health aspects, Lamaism--Social aspects, Meditation--Health aspects, Meditation--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...use of the internet regarding Buddhism, and thus may not have been...depicts contemporary Western Buddhism as having a female majority. Indeed, as observed...is more important to Western Buddhism than the way it is redefining...
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Toward a Buddhist Social Ethics: The Case of Thailand

Magazine article by Tavivat Puntarigvivat; Cross Currents, Vol. 48, Fall 1998

Subjects:

Buddhism and culture--Moral and ethical aspects, Buddhism--Social aspects, Thailand--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...their desperate families than do male or female factory laborers. Their sin is forgiven...ethics. There are six teachers, all female except for the principal, Phasakorn Kandej, and eighty-six female students ranging in age from thirteen...

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Agnes Arellano: Curvatures of the Female Principle

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 1, 2009

Subjects:

Art, Modern, Artists, Modern art, Modernism (Art)

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

...Arellano: Curvatures of the Female Principle. On the art circle...perspective and engross herself with female principles in divinity, mythology...iconographies from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Tantra (sacred sexuality...around his hips) from Tantric Buddhism. Arellano reveals: "So the...
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Myogyoji Buddist Temple to Host Open House

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 30, 2010

Subjects:

Buddhism, Lamaism

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

...an Introduction to Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism and Open House from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 1. Learn more about Buddhism and the fundamentals of the faith and...1. If you are a high schoolgirl, female college student or mother of a girl...
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Hopes Frustrated, Refugees from China Languish in Jail: Those Who Went Back Pay Heavy Price for Leaving

Newspaper article by Julia Duin; The Washington Times, September 4, 1996

Subjects:

China

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

...of forced abortion, sterilization and female circumcision. It has bipartisan support...with President Clinton to free several female refugees incarcerated in Bakersfield...they were identified. Meanwhile, five female Chinese prisoners incarcerated in Bakersfield...
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I'm Turning My Back on Pretty Women

Newspaper article by Showbiz John Millar; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 20, 1996

Subjects:

Gere, Richard

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

...a man happiness. "I enjoy female company, but it certainly...The star - who has practised Buddhism for more than 20 years - has...above, for enlightenment. Buddhism has become the hip religion...conversation in glittering circles." Buddhism is not just confined to Hollywood...
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Nothing like a Dane; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 26, 2006

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

...main religions, Shinto and Buddhism, and minor religions Taoism...mutual influence. Japanese Buddhism was not averse to sharing and...the Soka Gakkai Dictionary Of Buddhism, people are traditionally...the bank, a male demon and a female demon dwell under a large tree...

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Tantra

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...tun tr , in both Hinduism and Buddhism, esoteric tradition of ritual...diagrams; the importance of female deities, or Shakti ; cremation...contrast to the Hindu, the female principle of "wisdom" ( prajna...upaya ), is active. In Buddhism, rituals that appear to break...
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Tibetan Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...entirely religious in character (see Tibetan Buddhism ). The art of Tibetan Lamaism retains...drawn from the forms of both Hinduism and Buddhism in India and Nepal, and was later influenced...ferocious deities, accompanied by their female counterparts. Among the most famous of...
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Indian Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...throughout N India by the Emperor Asoka to proclaim his devotion to Buddhism. The monolithic, smooth columns are over 50 ft (15 m) high...composition. The bodies of semidivine beings including yakshis (female tree spirits) are flattened against the pillar of which they...

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