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Women in Buddhism

Books on: women in buddhism

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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

...Buddhist world, anti-women opinions and rhetoric...characteristic of early Buddhism. But they became...those who argued that women could have great...attitudes toward women. But no one who...older forms of Buddhism. This long-standing...ROLES IN MAHAYANA BUDDHISM: THE HISTORICAL...
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Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender

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

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the question of whether women could become liberated...misogyny developed later in Buddhism than the attitudes of...Images of Women in Early Buddhism and Christian Gnosticism...547; trans. in Paul, Women in Buddhism , pp. 27...Diana Pauls Women in Buddhism .
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Buddhism and Buddhists in China

Book by Lewis Hodous; Macmillan, 1924

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Buddhism--China

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...criticisms of the Chinese against Buddhism is that it is opposed to filial...progeny. In spite of this charge Buddhism has done much for the family...Giver of Children and Protector of Women Buddhism has done more. Out of its atmosphere...
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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

...about the same time. Buddhism After Patriarchy by Rita...past for contemporary women. On the down side, Gross found that Buddhism reflects the patriarchal...religious history by American women. The early work of Cabezon...situation of women in Buddhism, such as Susan Murcott...
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A History of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana

Book by Hirakawa Akira, Paul Groner; University of Hawaii Press, 1990

Subjects:

Buddhism--India--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

The role of women in Buddhism has attracted attention in recent years. The classic study on this topic in Early Buddhism is I. B. Horner Women under Primitive Buddhism . Her work has been extended in studies such as...

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Journal Articles on: women in buddhism

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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

...context of comparative Buddhism, the appeal of the...view that to be born a woman rather than a man was...contemporary Buddhist women, the textual messages...that typifies Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asian societies...display of dana, all women, regardless of social...maternal metaphor in early Buddhism While Theravadas emphasis...opportunities for any woman to display her religious...
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A Hybrid Form of Spirituality and the Challenge of a Dualistic Gender Role: the Spiritual Quest of a Woman Priest in Tendai Buddhism

Journal article by Masako Kuroki; Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 38, 2011

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Buddhists, Clergy, Sex roles, Spirituality

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Spiritual Quest of a Woman Priest in Tendai Buddhism by Masako Kuroki (ProQuest...of a few remarkable women in history, the models...research on women and Buddhism began to take off...enlightenment. The woman priest taken up in this...points that these two women have in common include...station in life" in Buddhism. When Yokoyama Hoyu...
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Womb = Woman = World: Gender and Transcendence in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism

Journal article by Charles D. Laughlin Phd.; Pre- and Peri-natal Psychology Journal, Vol. 5, 1990

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...mother-thus the first part of our womb = woman = world equation. However, if the lifeworld...words, positive orientation toward womb = woman = world will result in cognition (associated...evaluated lifeworld (i.e., womb = woman = world) and the other half (males...stressful, we would expect to find among many women: (1) ambivalent feelings towards ones...
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Rita Gross's Contribution to Contemporary Western Tibetan Buddhism

Journal article by Judith Simmer-Brown; Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 31, 2011

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College faculty--Works, College teachers--Works, Gross, Rita M.--Works, Mahayana Buddhism--Analysis, Western philosophy--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and perspectives of women in the early tradition...contributions of women to Buddhism. First, the hierarchs...society of Buddhist women, with strong representation...the publication of Buddhism after Patriarchy...many young Buddhist women who have been empowered...contemporary Tibetan Buddhism in the West. HISTORY...
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Engaged Buddhism in Retreat/peace in Oneself, Peace in the World: the Real Heart of Engaged Buddhism: a Response to Lisa Kemmerer

Journal article by Lisa Kemmerer, Bhikshuni Chan Tung Nghiem (barbara Newell); Human Architecture, Vol. 6, 2008

Subjects:

Buddhism, Colleges & universities, International relations, Poetry, Religion, Shoes & boots, Thich Nhat Hanh

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...earliest days of engaged Buddhism in Vietnam. She has...mindful action, was a woman; no visible sign of...include a section on women, whether feminist religious...church, or women in Buddhism. By the time students...Compassion" neglects to treat women with equality, even...fair representation to a woman of tremendous stature...

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Magazine Articles on: women in buddhism

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Following Two Paths: Buddhism and Feminism

Magazine article by Debra Huron; Herizons, Vol. 10, Fall 1996

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Buddhism, Costigliola, Bozica, Feminism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...are putting their stamp on Buddhism like never before. While...been held since 1987, many women outside the religious realm...labour movement, Bozica says Buddhism and her commitment to social change blend well. What Buddhism offers me as a woman is a way to stay sane in a...
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Following Two Paths: Buddhism and Feminism

Magazine article by Debra Huron; Herizons, Vol. 10, Fall 1996

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Art, Buddhism, International, Literature, Religion, Spirituality

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...are putting their stamp on Buddhism like never before. While...been held since 1987, many women outside the religious realm...labour movement, Bozica says Buddhism and her commitment to social change blend well. "What Buddhism offers me as a woman is a way to stay sane in a...
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Merit and Magic; Buddhism Faces Modernity in Thailand

Magazine article by Ben Barber; World and I, Vol. 13, April 1998

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Buddhism--Thailand, Thailand--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...vow of celibacy with several women. Phra Yantra Amaro Bhikku...following of millions, mostly women. A nun accused him of having...ship off Scandinavia. Another woman, a Danish harpist, said that...involved in drug taking and that women were procured for sex. A monk...vitiate the intrinsic value of Buddhism. Indeed, Thailand is widely...
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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

...asserts that much of traditional Buddhism is "androcentric and patriarchal...numerous positive portrayals of women in Indian Buddhist literature...might be transformed into a woman in that life as a consequence...are nothing but a bunch of women!" Even though his words...spontaneously be transformed into a woman, which Vasubandhu indicates...and not become angry when women succumb to their desires...three things with which a woman can never be satiated: sex...
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The Worldliness of Buddhism

Magazine article by Donald K. Swearer; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 21, Spring 1997

Subjects:

Buddhism--Evaluation, Buddhists--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Buddha reluctantly allowed women to undertake the monastic life...travelers who took up the study of Buddhism in the late 19th and early...they implicitly contrasted Buddhism with the faith-based theism...mystical and esoteric aspects of Buddhism, but they shared with other...

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Newspaper Articles on: women in buddhism

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Buddhism Seeks End to Suffering

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 9, 2009

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Buddhism, Lamaism

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

Buddhism Seeks End to Suffering. Byline...issue of human suffering. Buddhism seeks to offer the solution...Buddha inside of them - men, women, black, white, African...capitalizes on sin, she said. Buddhism teaches that every single...
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American Buddhism at a Crossroads

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 18, 2011

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Buddhism, Lamaism, Meditation, News agencies, The Associated Press

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

...Within the United States, Buddhism is even more decentralized...monastics generally lead Buddhism in roles shaped partly by their...people. Beyond the Dalai Lama, Buddhism is best known in the United...photos of themselves as young women in saris, or young men draped...
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ANALYSIS: How the Buddha Still Speaks to a Modern City; Today, in Our Series Investigating 'What Makes a Good City?', We Look at the Buddhist and Muslim Perspectives. Buddhism Expert Dr Elizabeth Harris Argues Diversity Is Essential, While DrJabal Buaben, a Lecturer on Islam at Birmingham University, States It Depends on a Morally Principled Society Buddhist Perspective

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 5, 2007

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Buddhism--Investigations, Buddhism--Religious aspects, Islam--Investigations, Islam--Religious aspects, Lamaism--Investigations, Lamaism--Religious aspects, Muslims--Investigations, Muslims--Religious aspects

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

...existence. What can the insights of Buddhism offer to this? Buddhism as we know it today began in...fourfold community of lay men, lay women, monks and nuns. He died at...condition throughout time. Buddhism was successful in India because...
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Unitarian Study Group Delves into Study of Buddhism

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 20, 2001

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

...observer and researcher of Buddhism. He has studied the religion...comparative study of religion. Buddhism appealed to the Unitarian Universalists...that he wouldnt speak about Buddhism as the one and only religion...Geneva. Sponsored by the Women of St. Patrick Catholic Church...
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RECORD WOMAN: Snap Decisions; Five Women, Five Pictures - and Five Lives on the Brink of a Momentous Change. We Reveal the Extraordinary Stories Behind These Ordinary Photographs

Newspaper article by Roz Paterson; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 11, 2000

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

RECORD WOMAN: Snap Decisions; Five Women, Five Pictures - and...in the lives of five women, capturing them just...World religions from Buddhism to Catholicism believe...retrospect. Our five women found this to be the...feisty, successful ... woman. George was to endure...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women in buddhism

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Japan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...in the splendor of the Tang dynasty. Buddhism was introduced, and the Japanese upper...A 2006 proposal by Koizumi to allow women, and children through the maternal line...the remains it returned to Japan of a woman who had been kidnapped by Korea turned...that Japans military had forced Asian women to serve in its brothels during World...
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Japanese Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...time of the introduction of Buddhism in the 6th cent. The teaching...of the features of men and women reflects the extreme sensitivity...painting. The Zen sect of Buddhism, which enjoyed a growing popularity...1986); P. Fister, Japanese Women Artists, Sixteen Hundred to...
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Monasticism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...played an important role in Buddhism (including Tibetan Buddhism ), Jainism , Islam , and Christianity...Roman Catholic communities of women are generally smaller and more...also monastic orders of men and women in the Anglican Church. Bibliography...
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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...rest (half of whom must be women) appointed by the president...tribes (notably the Saka). Buddhism was introduced from the east...increasing the freedom of its women provoked opposition that led...former mujahidin and Taliban, women, and Pashtuns (which are overlapping...
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Bhutan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...related to the Tibetans and practice a form of Buddhism closely related to the Lamaism (see Tibetan Buddhism ) of Tibet; many Bhutanese live in monasteries...slavery and the caste system, emancipating women, dividing large estates into small individual...

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