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Buddhist Women on the Edge:

Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier
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Marianne Dresser
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North Atlantic Books, Aug 22, 1996 - Social Science - 321 pages
As Buddhism is assimilated into the West, it is imperative that women reshape its patriarchal structures and carve out a fully legitimate, empowering position for themselves. Marianne Dresser brings together the likes of Pema Chodron, Tsultrim Allione, and bell hooks, 30 women in all, who are doing just that. Writers, nuns, scholars, priests--even a martial arts master and a private investigator--discuss women in Buddhism in a range of essays. Several pieces question the suppression of emotion required for selflessness, appealing to the undeniable reality of day-to-day living. Others discuss their experiences as women in Buddhism, whether as nuns or as lay practitioners. Still others address the history of women in Buddhism, racial questions, meditation, poetry, compassion, social activism, and sexual orientation. Most of these writers have been in Buddhism for two or three decades and offer a wealth of experience and insights, targeted at women readers but no less valuable to men.
  

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TitleBuddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier
Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier, Marianne Dresser
Volume 55 of Io series
EditorMarianne Dresser
PublisherNorth Atlantic Books, 1996
ISBN1556432038, 9781556432033
Length321 pages
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Religion / Buddhism / General
Religion / Spirituality
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