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Women in Buddhist Traditions

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist traditions have developed over a period of twenty-five centuries in Asia, and recent decades have seen an unprecedented spread of Buddhism globally. From India to Japan, Sri Lanka to Russia, Buddhist traditions around the world have their own rich and diverse histories, cultures, religious lives, and roles for women. Wherever Buddhism has taken root, it has interacted with indigenous cultures and existing religious traditions. These traditions have inevitably influenced the ways in which Buddhist ideas and practices have been understood and adapted. Tracing the branches and fruits of these culturally specific transmissions and adaptations is as challenging as it is fascinating. Women in Buddhist Traditions chronicles pivotal moments in the story of Buddhist women, from the beginning of Buddhist history until today. The book highlights the unique contributions of Buddhist women from a variety of backgrounds and the strategies they have developed to challenge patriarchy in the process of creating an enlightened society. Women in Buddhist Traditions offers a groundbreaking and insightful introduction to the lives of Buddhist women worldwide.

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1479803413

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Buddhism through American Women's Eyes

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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Buddhism through American Women's Eyes

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

The Buddha's path to human transformation declares women and men equally capable of spiritual realization, yet throughout history most exemplars of this tradition have been men. Now, as Buddhism is transmitted to the West, women are playing a major role in its adaptation and development. The conversation presented here takes place among experienced practitioners from many Buddhist traditions who share their thoughts on the Buddhist outlook, its practical application in everyday life, and the challenges of practicing Buddhism in the Western world. Thirteen women contribute a wealth of thought-provoking material on topics such as bringing Dharma into relationships, dealing with stress, Buddhism and the Twelve Steps, mothering and meditation, the monastic experience, and forging a kind heart in an age of alienation.

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1559397349

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Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death

Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death

Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

This book explores the Buddhist view of death and its implications for contemporary bioethics. Writing primarily from within the Tibetan tradition, author Karma Lekshe Tsomo discusses Buddhist notions of human consciousness and personal identity and how these figure in the Buddhist view of death. Beliefs about death and enlightenment and states between life and death are also discussed. Tsomo goes on to examine such hot-button topics as cloning, abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, organ donation, genetic engineering, and stem-cell research within a Buddhist context, introducing new ways of thinking about these highly controversial issues.

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State University of New York Press

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Sisters in Solitude

Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women. A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Dharmagupta and the Tibetan Mūlasarvāstivāda Bhikṣuṇi Prātimokṣa Sūtras

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Sisters in Solitude

Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women. A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Dharmagupta and the Tibetan Mūlasarvāstivāda Bhikṣuṇi Prātimokṣa Sūtras

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

This study is an investigation of the moral precepts and codes of everyday conduct by which ordained women regulated their lives. It takes as its basis the Bhikṣuṇī Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Dharmagupta school, preserved in Chinese translation, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda school, preserved in Tibetan translation. For over two thousand years, Buddhist nuns have quietly embodied specific moral and spiritual values on their path to enlightenment. Contemplative communities offered women both an alternative lifestyle and an avenue for education. Numbering as many as one million at certain periods of history, they have exerted powerful, if often unacknowledged, influence on Asian societies. Sisters in Solitude documents the earliest recorded system of ethics formulated especially for women and presents the first English translations of the original texts. An essential sourcebook for studies on women's religious history and feminist ethics, it details the monastic guidelines that link Buddhist nuns of the different traditions. The texts it contains unite women of many cultures.

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Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death

Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death

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Sisters in Solitude

Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women. A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Dharmagupta and the Tibetan Mūlasarvāstivāda Bhikṣuṇi Prātimokṣa Sūtras

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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Sisters in Solitude

Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women. A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Dharmagupta and the Tibetan Mūlasarvāstivāda Bhikṣuṇi Prātimokṣa Sūtras

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Provides the first English translation of the Tibetan and Chinese texts on monastic discipline for Buddhist nuns and presents a comparative study of the two texts. An important contribution for studies of women's history, feminist philosophy, women's studies, women in religion, and feminist ethics.

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0791430898

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Women in Buddhist Traditions

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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Innovative Buddhist Women

Swimming Against the Stream

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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Innovative Buddhist Women

Swimming Against the Stream

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Combines the voices of scholars and practitioners in analysing Buddhist women's history. 26 articles document the lives of women who have set in motion changes within Buddhist societies, with analyses of issues such as gender, ethnicity, authority, and class that affect the lives of women in traditional Buddhist cultures and, increasingly, the west.

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Routledge

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1136114262

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Buddhism through American Women's Eyes

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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Swimming Against the Stream

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Swimming Against the Stream

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Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness

To Be, Not to Be or Neither

By: Karma Phuntsho

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Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness

To Be, Not to Be or Neither

By: Karma Phuntsho

This is an introduction to the Buddhist philosophy of Emptiness Useful for scholars of Tibetan studies and Buddhist philosophy Explores the theories of Emptiness in an easy narrative style This is a compelling account of Emptiness

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Sisters In Solitude

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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Sisters In Solitude

By: Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Documents The Earliest Recorded System Of Ethics Formulated Especially For Women - Presents The First English Translations Of Thr Original Texts - Details The Monastic Guidelines That Links Buddhist Nuns Of The Different Traditions. 5 Chapters - Notes - Glossary - Bibliography - Index.

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Women in Buddhist Traditions

Women in Buddhist Traditions

Buddhism through American Women's Eyes

Buddhism through American Women's Eyes

Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death

Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death

Sisters in Solitude

Sisters in Solitude

Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death

Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death

Sisters in Solitude

Sisters in Solitude

Women in Buddhist Traditions

Women in Buddhist Traditions

Innovative Buddhist Women

Innovative Buddhist Women

Buddhism through American Women's Eyes

Buddhism through American Women's Eyes

Innovative Buddhist Women

Innovative Buddhist Women

Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness

Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness

Sisters In Solitude

Sisters In Solitude

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