Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream

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Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Psychology Press, 2000 - History - 354 pages
Combines the voices of scholars and practitioners in analysing Buddhist women's history. 26 articles document the lives of women who have set in motion changes within Buddhist societies, with analyses of issues such as gender, ethnicity, authority, and class that affect the lives of women in traditional Buddhist cultures and, increasingly, the west.
 

Contents

Inaccuracies in Buddhist Womens History
5
Theravāda Nuns in the Kathmandu
13
Unity and Diversity Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka
30
Buddhist Women in Bangladesh
42
The First Buddhist School
61
The Status and Values of the Santi Asoke Sikkhamat
72
Rediscovering Cambodian Buddhist Women of the Past
84
The Revival of the Don Chee Movement in Cambodia
91
Tibetan Nuns and their Encounters
201
Yeshes Tibetan Pilgrimage and the Founding of
212
Born Buddhist is Not Enough
229
The First Hawaiian Buddhist
235
A Tendai Ajari in Hawaii
249
WOMEN IN COMPASSIONATE SOCIAL ACTION
263
Thinking about Race and American
277
in the West
285

Buddhist Survivors
96
An Eminent Vietnamese Buddhist Nun
104
In Gratitude to Ananda
123
A Gelugpa Nunnery in Contemporary China
130
Mistress
142
Lineage or Family Tree? The Implications for Gender
154
The International
168
Daylighting the Feminine in American Buddhism
294
Buddhism Human Rights Womens Rights
302
Moving and Recreating Womens
312
Inner Transformation for World Peace
319
Index
336
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Karma Lekshe Tsomo teaches at Chaminade University in Honolulu. She is secretary of Sakyadhita: International Association of Buddhist Women and director of Jamyang Choling Institute, an education project for women in the Indian Himalayas.