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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Buddhist women and social justice. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004 (DLC) 2003070446 (OCoLC)54022635 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, BhiksÌ£unÌ£iÌ |
| ISBN: | 1423740173 9781423740179 |
| OCLC Number: | 62395547 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 280 p.) |
| Contents: | Introduction: Family, monastery, and gender justice: reenvisioning Buddhist institutions / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- PART ONE : THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR BUDDHIST SOCIAL ACTION -- Buddhist understandings of subjectivity / Anne Carolyn Klein -- Reflections on Buddhism, gender, and human rights / Lin Chew -- Is the Bhikṣuṇī Vinaya sexist? / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Transforming conflict, transforming ourselves: Buddhism and social liberation / Paula Green -- Redefining and expanding the self in conflict resolution / Meenakshi Chhabra -- Integrating feminist theory and engaged Buddhism: counseling women survivors of gender-based violence / Kathryn L. Norsworthy -- PART TWO : WOMEN TRANSFORMING BUDDHIST SOCIETIES -- Reclaiming the robe: reviving the Bhikkhunī Order in Sri Lanka / Ranjani de Silva -- Dharma education for women in the Theravāda Buddhist community of Nepal / Sarah Le Vine -- Buddhism, women, and caste: the case of the Newar Buddhists of the Kathmandu Valley / David N. Gellner -- Trafficking in Buddhist girls: empowerment through prevention / Khandu Lama -- Khunying Kanitha: Thailand's advocate for women / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Crisis as opportunity: nuns and cultural change in the Spiti Valley / Margaret Coberly -- Spiritual piety, social activism, and economic realities: the nuns of Mantokuji / Diana E. Wright -- The infinite worlds of Taiwan's Buddhist nuns / Elise Anne DeVido -- Resistance without borders: an exploration of Buddhist nuns across cultures / Caren I. Ohlson. |
| Series Title: | SUNY series, feminist philosophy. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. |
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