Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7256-0 (ISBN)
Silver Medalist, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion (Eastern/Western) Category
This groundbreaking book explores Buddhist thought and culture, from multiple Buddhist perspectives, as sources for feminist reflection and social action. Too often, when writers apply terms such as "woman," "femininity," and "feminism" to Buddhist texts and contexts, they begin with models of feminist thinking that foreground questions and concerns arising from Western experience. This oversight has led to many facile assumptions, denials, and oversimplifications that ignore women's diverse social and historical contexts. But now, with the tools of feminist analysis that have developed in recent decades, constructs of the feminine in Buddhist texts, imagery, and philosophy can be examined—with the acknowledgment that there are limitations to applying these theoretical paradigms to other cultures. Contributors to this volume offer a feminist analysis, which integrates gender theory and Buddhist perspectives, to Buddhist texts and women's narratives from Asia. How do Buddhist concepts of self and no-self intersect with concepts of gender identity, especially for women? How are the female body, sexuality, and femininity constructed (and contested) in diverse Buddhist contexts? How might power and gender identity be perceived differently through a Buddhist lens? By exploring feminist approaches and representations of "the feminine," including persistent questions about women's identities as householders and renunciants, this book helps us to understand how Buddhist influences on attitudes toward women, and how feminist thinking from other parts of the world, can inform and enlarge contemporary discussions of feminism.
Karma Lekshe Tsomo is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of San Diego. Her many books include Eminent Buddhist Women and Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations, each published by SUNY Press.
Preface
Introduction: Conceptualizing Buddhist Feminisms and Images of the Feminine
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Part I: Buddhist Feminisms: Texts and Communities
1. Reimagining Buddhist Women in India
Karen Lang
2. The Religious Life of Buddhist Women in Chosŏn Korea
Eun-su Cho
3. Raichō Hiratsuka and Socially Engaged Buddhism
Christine A. James
4. A “Great Man” is No Longer Gendered: The Gender Identity and Practice of Chan Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan
Ching-ning Wang (Chang-shen Shih)
5. Sikkhamats: The Aesthetics of Asoke Ascetics
Robekkah L. Ritchie
6. New Buddhist Women Across Borders: Buddhist Influences and Interactions in Alternative Histories of Global Feminisms
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Part II: Buddhist Femininities: Demystifying the Essential Feminine
7. Only Skin Deep? Female Embodiment and the Paradox of Beauty in Indian Buddhism
Lisa J. Battaglia
8. Conflicts and Compromises: The Relationship between the Nuns of Daihongan and the Monks of Daikanjin within the Zenkōji Temple Complex
Matthew Mitchell
9. Gendered Hagiography in Tibet: Comparing Clerical Representations of the Female Visionary, Khandro Tāre Lhamo
Holly Gayley
10. Feminine Identities in Buddhist Chöd
Michelle J. Sorensen
11. Mindfully Feminine? The Role of Meditation in the Production and the Marketing of Gendered Lifestyles
Jeff Wilson
Insights and Imaginations: An Epilogue
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.07.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-7256-0 / 1438472560 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-7256-0 / 9781438472560 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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