Women and monastic Buddhism in early South Asia : rediscovering the invisible believers / Garima Kaushik
نوع المادة : نصاللغة: الإنجليزية السلاسل:Archaeology and religion in South Asiaالناشر:Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2016وصف:ix, 284 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781138100015
- 1138100013
- BQ6150 .K38 2016
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | BQ6150 .K38 2016 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000118846 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | BQ6150 .K38 2016 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000206357 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index
Introduction -- Sacred spaces and the feminine in Buddhism -- Locating the bhikşunī : identifying nunneries -- Exploring women's space : conflict between the social and the asocial worlds -- Women as patrons -- Conclusion
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