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Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia

Rediscovering the invisible believers

By: Garima Kaushik

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Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia

Rediscovering the invisible believers

By: Garima Kaushik

This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category—thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse—this monograph examines their sustained role in the larger context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms their agency. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members, etc. within Buddhism. The volume also investigates the individual experiences of the members, and their equations and relationships at different levels—with the Samgha at large, with their own respective Bhikşu or Bhikşunī Sangha, with the laity, and with members of the same gender (both lay and monastic). It rereads, reconfigures and reassesses historical data in order to arrive at a new understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which it developed and flourished. Bringing together archaeological, epigraphic, art historical, literary as well as ethnographic data, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Buddhism, gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, and South Asian studies.

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1317329392

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Pakistan's Nuclear Disorder

Weapons, Proliferation, and Safety

By: Garima Singh

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Pakistan's Nuclear Disorder

Weapons, Proliferation, and Safety

By: Garima Singh

Non-proliferation concerns have often been shrugged off by nations for short-term and short-sighted strategic interests. The present relationship between Pakistan and the US is a case in point. Though a member of the NPT, coupled with non-proliferation as its foreign policy, the US has been turning a blind eye to Pakistan's long and avid quest for nuclear weapons - primarily to serve its own short-term strategic interests in the region. Pakistan, well aware of this, has exploited the situation to full. The focus of this work is to determine whether the Western experts' apprehensions on the safety and security of Pakistan's nuclear installations and fissile material are well founded or an exaggeration. The decades-old nuclear trade between Pakistan and other countries has also been discussed with a view to highlighting the fact that A. Q. Khan's proliferation linkages did not come as a surprise to the US, emphasizing the point that Washington had been turning a blind eye to the nuclear linkages and programmes for its own strategic interests. The study also holds that NPT has been unsuccessful in controlling nuclear proliferation and suggests ways to curb further proliferation.

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Lancer Publishers

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8170622131

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9788170622130

Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia

Rediscovering the invisible believers

By: Garima Kaushik

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Rediscovering the invisible believers

By: Garima Kaushik

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Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia

Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia

Pakistan's Nuclear Disorder

Pakistan's Nuclear Disorder

Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia

Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia

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