Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the StreamKarma Lekshe Tsomo 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 |
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