Buddhist nuns and gendered practice : in search of the female renunciant /

Nirmala S. Salgado offers a study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns.

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Main Author: Salgado, Nirmala S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Buddhist nuns and gendered practice -- Part I: Narration. Decolonizing female renunciation ; Institutional discourse and everyday practice ; Buddhism, power, and practice -- Part II: Identity. Invisible nuns ; Subjects of renunciation ; Becoming Bhikkhunis, becoming Theravada -- Part III: Empowerment. Renunciation and "empowerment" ; Global empowerment and the renunciant everyday. 
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