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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nirmala S Salgado |
ISBN: | 9780199760015 0199760012 9780199760022 0199760020 |
OCLC Number: | 810273646 |
Description: | xii, 319 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Buddhist nuns and gendered practice -- Part I: Narration. Decolonizing female renunciation ; Institutional discourse and everyday practice ; Buddhism, power, and practice -- Part II: Identity. Invisible nuns ; Subjects of renunciation ; Becoming Bhikkhunis, becoming Theravada -- Part III: Empowerment. Renunciation and "empowerment" ; Global empowerment and the renunciant everyday. |
Responsibility: | Nirmala S. Salgado. |
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Abstract:
Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns.
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Salgado's book is a good corrective to much scholarship on the practices and lives of Buddhist nuns, particularly in Sri Lanka, and therefore deserves serious attention by all scholars of Buddhism. * P. O. Ingram, Choice, * Read more...

