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"This book on engaged Buddhism focuses on women working for social justice in a wide range of Buddhist traditions and societies. Contributors document attempts to actualize Buddhism's liberating ideals of personal growth and social transformation. Dealing with issues such as human rights,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Karma Lekshe Tsomo, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.
Colección:SUNY series, feminist philosophy.
Temas:
Buddhist women > Social conditions.
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Social justice.
Social Justice
Femmes bouddhistes > Conditions sociales.
Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins bouddhiques.
Justice sociale.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women
Feminism > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Social justice
Essay
essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Family, monastery, and gender justice: reenvisioning Buddhist institutions / Karma Lekshe Tsomo
  • PART ONE : THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR BUDDHIST SOCIAL ACTION
  • Buddhist understandings of subjectivity / Anne Carolyn Klein
  • Reflections on Buddhism, gender, and human rights / Lin Chew
  • Is the Bhikṣuṇī Vinaya sexist? / Karma Lekshe Tsomo
  • Transforming conflict, transforming ourselves: Buddhism and social liberation / Paula Green
  • Redefining and expanding the self in conflict resolution / Meenakshi Chhabra
  • Integrating feminist theory and engaged Buddhism: counseling women survivors of gender-based violence / Kathryn L. Norsworthy
  • PART TWO : WOMEN TRANSFORMING BUDDHIST SOCIETIES
  • Reclaiming the robe: reviving the Bhikkhunī Order in Sri Lanka / Ranjani de Silva
  • Dharma education for women in the Theravāda Buddhist community of Nepal / Sarah Le Vine
  • Buddhism, women, and caste: the case of the Newar Buddhists of the Kathmandu Valley / David N. Gellner
  • Trafficking in Buddhist girls: empowerment through prevention / Khandu Lama
  • Khunying Kanitha: Thailand's advocate for women / Karma Lekshe Tsomo
  • Crisis as opportunity: nuns and cultural change in the Spiti Valley / Margaret Coberly
  • Spiritual piety, social activism, and economic realities: the nuns of Mantokuji / Diana E. Wright
  • The infinite worlds of Taiwan's Buddhist nuns / Elise Anne DeVido
  • Resistance without borders: an exploration of Buddhist nuns across cultures / Caren I. Ohlson.

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