Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western FrontierMarianne Dresser 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. |
Contents
Sallie Jiko Tisdale | 13 |
Kate ONeill | 19 |
Klein | 39 |
Jane Hirshfield | 45 |
Anita Barrows | 51 |
Kate Wheeler | 57 |
Jan Willis | 81 |
Outside | 93 |
Anne Teich | 179 |
Sandy Boucher | 199 |
Shosan Victoria Austin | 209 |
Nina Egert | 217 |
Thubten Chodron | 223 |
Michele BenzaminMasuda | 235 |
The Dark Clue | 243 |
Susan Moon | 257 |
Tsultrim Allione | 105 |
Melody Ermachild Chavis | 117 |
Alta Brown | 125 |
Gross | 133 |
Judith SimmerBrown | 151 |
My Tantric FlipFlop | 159 |
Maylie Scott | 171 |
Anne Waldman | 263 |
Erin Blackwell | 277 |
bell hooks | 287 |
Pema Chodron | 293 |
Glossary | 305 |
About the Contributors | 315 |
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Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier Marianne Dresser No preview available - 1996 |
Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier Marianne Dresser No preview available - 1996 |
Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier Marianne Dresser No preview available - 1996 |
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