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Books on: women and buddhists

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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

...and roles in terms of the Buddhist monastic life of women. Some texts even leave the impression that there are no Buddhist monastic women, especially...the reader that there are Buddhist nuns in Japan and does not...statements assume that all Buddhists have the same definition of...
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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

...advancement. Third, Buddhist women from disparate ethnic...beleaguered situation, Buddhists in Bangladesh have...gender restructuring of Buddhist institutions in Bangladesh...revitalizing their cherished Buddhist heritage. Notes 1...Barua, Buddhism and Buddhists in Bangladesh unpublished...
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Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography and Ritual

Book by Serinity Young; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Buddhist Art And Symbolism, Gautama Buddha, Gautama Buddha--Relations With Women, Women In Buddhism--India, Women In The Tripiotaka

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...important shapers of the Buddhist tradition such as the fourth...philosopher Asa ga insisted that women could not be buddhas. In...perfected Buddhas are not women. And why? Precisely because...is never again reborn as a woman. All women are by nature full of defilement...region and period suggests that Buddhists could be supportive of women...
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An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values, and Issues

Book by Peter Harvey; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Buddhist Ethics

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...always been wary of, although Buddhists have not always managed to...there is on the status of women among Buddhists, the ideal should always...The bottom line, from a Buddhist perspective, is whether a...receive different answers from Buddhists. Before examining the situation...
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The Holy Land Reborn: Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India

Book by Toni Huber; University of Chicago Press, 2008

Subjects:

Buddhist Pilgrims And Pilgrimages--China--Tibet, Buddhist Pilgrims And Pilgrimages--India, India--Relations--China--Tibet, Sacred Space--India, Tibet (China)--Relations--India

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...both laypersons and clerics, men and women, and the young and old alike. The...water 2. Flag bearers 3. Tibetan Buddhists and monk musicians 4. Sinhalese Buddhist women 5. Burmese Buddhist women 6. Bengali and other Indian women...

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Journal Articles on: women and buddhists

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Portraits of Buddhist Women

Journal article by Lucinda Peach; Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 24, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Portraits of Buddhist Women (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...not follow many Buddhist texts in positing...Portraits of Buddhist Women provides an important...not read and the woman who could suggests...larger corpus of Buddhist literature. For...messages regarding women, containing both...devotees and non-Buddhists, diligent practitioners...Lotus Sutra portray women as apparently capable...appearance of a woman notable by comparison...
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Dhammamata: Buddhadasa Bhikkhu's Notion of Motherhood in Buddhist Women Practitioners

Journal article by Tomomi Ito; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 38, 2007

Subjects:

Buddhadasa Bhikkhu--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Buddhists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Monastic and religious life of women, Motherhood--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...womens abilities in Buddhist practice was reaffirmed...on all occasions; a woman is also wise, being...clearly outlined how women should be treated...background, see Ito, Buddhist women in dhamma practice...literally means lay woman. In the contemporary...to refer to pious lay women dedicated to Buddhist...
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Portraits of Buddhist Women: Stories from the Saddharmaratnavaliya

Journal article by Kurtis R. Schaeffer; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Portraits of Buddhist Women: Stories from the Saddharmaratnavaliya (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Portraits of Buddhist Women: Stories from the Saddharmaratnavaliya...Saddharmaratnavaliya, the tales of Buddhist women translated here by Obeyesekere are...xxi). If readers of Portraits of Buddhist Women are able to take Dharmasenas advice...
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Buddhist Women and Interfaith Work in the United States

Journal article by Kate Dugan; Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 27, 2007

Subjects:

Buddhism--Analysis, Buddhism--Religious aspects, Interfaith relations, Lamaism--Analysis, Lamaism--Religious aspects, Religions--Relations, Women--Analysis, Women--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...dialogue, as each woman worked to engage...religious lives. BUDDHIST WOMEN IN LOCAL INTERFAITH...illuminates how Buddhist women and non-Buddhists encounter each...conversations between Buddhists and Christians...groups such as Women Transcending Boundaries...academic journal, Buddhist-Christian Studies...year as the only woman, she threatened...
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Women in Tibet

Journal article by Rae Erin Dachille; Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 27, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Women In Tibet (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...In the cases of Tibetan and Buddhist studies, the approach to womanhood...room for the possibility that women continue to perform as historical...Exploring the participation of women in lineages as diverse as the...considering the ways in which women exploited opportunities to...rare glimpse of a historical woman defining her marginality and...

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Magazine Articles on: women and buddhists

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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

...Tibet * Friends of the Western Buddhist Order * International Network of Engaged Buddhists * Prison Dharma Network * Sakyadhita...the International Association of Buddhist Women * World Fellowship of Buddhists * Other:__ 32. If in the past...
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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

...Third World point of view. Buddhist monks in Thailand are part...add a new dimension to the Buddhist hermeneutics for the poor...be changed as well. Many Buddhists seek liberation (Pali: nibbana...wish to offer a challenge to Buddhist ethical values by interpreting...pressured many younger men and women to migrate from the countryside...
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The Believer in Asia - Whether Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist, People of Faith Are Being Targeted in Asia

Magazine article by Ellen G. Pearson; World and I, Vol. 15, December 2000

Subjects:

Christianity--Asia, Freedom of religion--Civil rights, Jihad--Reports

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...February 2000, said women were subjected to violence...population claiming to be Buddhists. Reverend Van Dam...Dam, there are two Buddhist temples in Vietnam...government-sponsored Buddhist church is under strict...it does not follow Buddhist teachings. According...and they look like Buddhists but are not Buddhists...
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Buddhist Nuns Putting Equality into Practice [Ladakh

Magazine article by Donna Brown; Vol. 12, Fall 1998

Subjects:

Buddhism, Nuns

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Buddhist Nuns Putting Equality into...of all is stepping forward: Buddhist nuns. Forty years after China...dynamic 30-something Ladakhi woman who was ordained as a nun while...international conference of Buddhist women in Ladakhs capital, Leh...triumph. And for the ordained women of Ladakh, a religious vocation...
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Buddhist Nuns Putting Equality into Practice

Magazine article by Donna Brown; Herizons, Vol. 12, Fall 1998

Subjects:

Buddhism, International, Literature, Religion, Tibet

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Buddhist Nuns Putting Equality into Practice by Donna Brown Buddhist Nuns Putting Equality Into...dynamic 30something Ladakhi woman who was ordained as a nun while...international conference of Buddhist women in Ladakhs capital, Leh...triumph. And for the ordained women of Ladakh, a religious vocation...

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Newspaper Articles on: women and buddhists

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Sisters Give Attentive Ear to Buddhist

Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, June 28, 1997

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

...Sisters give attentive ear to Buddhist by Larry Witham To celebrate...keynote talk from Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar Asoka Bandarage...should not try to convert Buddhists. That was not the issue...Lanka in 1995. Instead, the Buddhist monks boycotted him for writing...women in general, and women who are poor." The meeting...come as an outsider, a lay woman and a Buddhist, our differences...
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Buddhist Style a Hit in the US

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 22, 2008

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

Buddhist Style a Hit in the US. Byline: By MARY McNAMARA IRISH Buddhists are setting fashion trends...Mongolia which allows poorer women to use their craft skills...women. Choeden and two Irish women, Angela McCabe from Tyrone...in 1977 with the help of a Buddhist Lama, who now regularly teaches...
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Buddhist Leader to Clarify Sex Views: Dalai Lama Sets Summit with Gays

Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, April 24, 1997

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

Buddhist leader to clarify sex views...his position to homosexual Buddhist activists. Groups such as the Gay Buddhist Fellowship raised the concern...is between men or between women, is not improper in itself...emphasized in Christianity. Some Buddhists said the Dalai Lamas stand...
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A Buddhist Meditation Retreat - Not a Silent and Solemn Weekend, but a Chance to Meet an Extraordinary Teacher and Receive Wisdom That Leaves a Lasting Impression, Writes JENNIE DELL; Timeless Wisdom from a Modern and Controversial Buddhist Teacher

Newspaper article; The Northern Star (Lismore, Australia), March 20, 2010

Subjects:

Teachers

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

...wake up the day after my Buddhist weekend retreat with a hangover...But this wasnt your average Buddhist retreat, and the headache...meditation. Diamond Way Buddhists do it differently. The Friday...a detailed and colourful Buddhist image - on it. Potted palms...Lama, and mischievous about women - is there something vaguely...because a pretty young blonde woman has come to sit on Lama Oles...
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Yes, Buddhists Can Be Bad; Burma's Majority Persecutes Christians and Muslims Alike

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 9, 2009

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Christian-Muslim relations, Christianity and other religions--Islam, Muslims, Refugees

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

Yes, Buddhists Can Be Bad; Burmas Majority...as citizens of the largely Buddhist country. Instead, the government...die. Once the men go, the women are stranded. Land is routinely confiscated. The women are subjected to numerous...without state authority. Women are subjected to sexual violence...Kabizatul Kubra, a Bangladeshi woman from the local community...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women and buddhists

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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...smaller minorities of Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, and Buddhists. Economy About 25% of Britains land is arable, and almost...Reform Bill extended the vote to agricultural laborers. (Women could not vote until 1918.) In the 1880s trade unions, which...
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Thailand

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...religion; some 95% of the people are Buddhists, while about 5% are Muslims. Economy...age to 18, guaranteed equal rights for women, and reduced membership in the military...1984); C. F. Keyes, Thailand: Buddhist Kingdom as Modern Nation State (1987...
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Bhutan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...uninhabited, except for some Buddhist monks in scattered monasteries...the persecution of Tibetan Buddhists led India to close the Bhutanese...caste system, emancipating women, dividing large estates into...longer has a Dharma Raja, Buddhist priests retain political influence...Bhutanese to adopt Bhutanese Buddhist traditions, and the expulsion...

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