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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marianne Dresser |
| ISBN: | 1556432038 9781556432033 |
| OCLC Number: | 34849874 |
| Description: | xvii, 321 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Wild, Wise, Passionate: Dakinis in America / Miranda Shaw -- Form, Emptiness; Emptiness, Form / Sallie Jiko Tisdale -- Sounds of Silence / Kate O'Neill -- Persons and Possibilities / Anne C. Klein -- What Is the Emotional Life of a Buddha? / Jane Hirshfield -- The Light of Outrage: Women, Anger, and Buddhist Practice / Anita Barrows -- Bowing, Not Scraping / Kate Wheeler -- Unlearning Silence: A Further Feminist Revaluation of Buddhist Practice / Marilyn Senf -- Buddhism and Race: An African American Baptist-Buddhist Perspective / Jan Willis -- Outside In: Buddhism in America / Lori Pierce -- The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism / Tsultrim Allione -- Walking a Few Steps Farther / Melody Ermachild Chavis -- The Ruthlessness of the Practice of Compassion / Alta Brown -- Community, Work, Relationship, and Family: Renunciation and Balance in American Buddhist Practice / Rita M. Gross -- Romantic Vision, Everyday Disappoinment / Judith Simmer-Brown. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Marianne Dresser. |
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Abstract:
Buddhist Women on the Edge presents the voices of American women on their experiences of Buddhist practice. In thirty thoughtful and provocative essays, a diverse range of contributors - Dharma teachers, scholars, monastics, practitioners, and sympathizers - explore the challenges and rewards of integrating Buddhist practice in the West. Contributors include Tsultrim Allione, Sandy Boucher, Pema Chodron, Rita M. Gross, Jane Hirshfield, bell hooks, Anne C. Klein, Miranda Shaw, Sallie Tisdale, Kate Wheeler, Jan Willis, and many others. The essays explore issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality; lineage, authority,and the accessibility of Buddhist institutions; monastic, lay, and community practice; the teacher-student relationship; psychological perspectives and the role of the emotions; crosscultural adaptation and appropriation; and how spiritual practice informs creativity, personal relationships, and political/social activism.
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