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Innovative Buddhist women : swimming against the stream / edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo.

Contributor(s): Karma Lekshe Tsomo, 1944-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Curzon critical studies in Buddhism: Publisher: Richmond, Surrey [England] : Curzon, 2000Description: xxviii, 354 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0700712534 (pbk.); 9780700712533 (pbk.); 0700712194; 9780700712199Subject(s): Buddhist women | Women in BuddhismBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Inaccuracies in Buddhist women's history / Bhikkhunī Kusuma -- At the cutting edge: Theravāda nuns in the Kathmandu valley / Sarah LeVine -- Unity and diversity among Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka / Nirmala S. Salgado -- Factions and fortitude: Buddhist women in Bangladesh / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Thammacarini Witthaya: the first Buddhist school for girls in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- The status and values of the Santi Asoke Sikkhamat / Marja-Leena Heikkilä-Horn -- Rediscovering Cambodian Buddhist women of the past / Hema Goonatilake -- The revival of the Don Chee movement in Cambodia / Heike Löschmann -- Khmer women: Buddhist survivors / Nancy J. Barnes -- Dam Luu: an eminent Vietnamese Buddhist nun / Thich Minh Duc -- A case of ritual Zen: ingratitude to Ānanda / Paula K. R. Arai -- Tiexiangsi: a Gelugpa nunnery in contemporary China / Ester Bianchi -- Birth, death, and resurrection of Shim Ch'ông: mistress of the spiritual domain / Chan E. Park -- Lineage or family tree? The implications for gender / Miriam Levering -- Ordination, legitimacy, and sisterhood: the international full ordination ceremony in Bodhgaya / Yuchen Li --
Of birds and wings: Tibetan nuns and their encounters with knowledge / Yolanda van Ede -- Yeshe's Tibetan pilgrimage and the founding of a Himalayan nunery / Kim Gutschow -- Born Buddhist is not enough / Tashi Zangmo -- Mary Foster: the first Hawaiian Buddhist / Patricia Lee Masters and Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Bishop Jikyu Rose: a Tendai Ajari in Hawai'i / Joseph M. Gardewin -- Buddhism and the media / Elizabeth J. Harris -- Diversity as practice: thinking about race and "American" Buddhism / Lori Pierce -- Sexual conduct and misconduct: Buddhist ethics in the West / Gabriele Küstermann -- Daylighting the feminine in American Buddhism / Mushim Ikeda-Nash -- Buddhism, human rights, women's rights, and democracy / Kassie Neou -- Engaged Buddhism: "moving" and recreating women's stories / Trina Nahm-Mijo -- Inner transformation for world peace / Tenzin Palmo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inaccuracies in Buddhist women's history / Bhikkhunī Kusuma -- At the cutting edge: Theravāda nuns in the Kathmandu valley / Sarah LeVine -- Unity and diversity among Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka / Nirmala S. Salgado -- Factions and fortitude: Buddhist women in Bangladesh / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Thammacarini Witthaya: the first Buddhist school for girls in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- The status and values of the Santi Asoke Sikkhamat / Marja-Leena Heikkilä-Horn -- Rediscovering Cambodian Buddhist women of the past / Hema Goonatilake -- The revival of the Don Chee movement in Cambodia / Heike Löschmann -- Khmer women: Buddhist survivors / Nancy J. Barnes -- Dam Luu: an eminent Vietnamese Buddhist nun / Thich Minh Duc -- A case of ritual Zen: ingratitude to Ānanda / Paula K. R. Arai -- Tiexiangsi: a Gelugpa nunnery in contemporary China / Ester Bianchi -- Birth, death, and resurrection of Shim Ch'ông: mistress of the spiritual domain / Chan E. Park -- Lineage or family tree? The implications for gender / Miriam Levering -- Ordination, legitimacy, and sisterhood: the international full ordination ceremony in Bodhgaya / Yuchen Li --

Of birds and wings: Tibetan nuns and their encounters with knowledge / Yolanda van Ede -- Yeshe's Tibetan pilgrimage and the founding of a Himalayan nunery / Kim Gutschow -- Born Buddhist is not enough / Tashi Zangmo -- Mary Foster: the first Hawaiian Buddhist / Patricia Lee Masters and Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Bishop Jikyu Rose: a Tendai Ajari in Hawai'i / Joseph M. Gardewin -- Buddhism and the media / Elizabeth J. Harris -- Diversity as practice: thinking about race and "American" Buddhism / Lori Pierce -- Sexual conduct and misconduct: Buddhist ethics in the West / Gabriele Küstermann -- Daylighting the feminine in American Buddhism / Mushim Ikeda-Nash -- Buddhism, human rights, women's rights, and democracy / Kassie Neou -- Engaged Buddhism: "moving" and recreating women's stories / Trina Nahm-Mijo -- Inner transformation for world peace / Tenzin Palmo.

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