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Buddhist women and social justice : ideals, challenges, and achievements
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Buddhist women and social justice : ideals, challenges, and achievements

Author: Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Bhikṣuṇī
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.
Series: SUNY series, feminist philosophy.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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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, Bhikṣuṇī
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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