Buddhist Women and Social Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhist Women and Social Justice write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Buddhist Women and Social Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book on engaged Buddhism focuses on women working for social justice in a wide range of Buddhist traditions and societies. Contributors document attempts to actualize Buddhism's liberating ideals of personal growth and social transformation. Dealing with issues such as human rights, gender-based violence, prostitution, and the role of Buddhist nuns, the work illuminates the possibilities for positive change that are available to those with limited power and resources. Integrating social realities and theoretical perspectives, the work utilizes feminist interpretations of Buddhist values and looks at culturally appropriate means of instigating change.
Compassion & Social Justice
Compassion & Social Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Compassion & Social Justice write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Bhikṣuṇī). This book was released on 2015. Compassion & Social Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Eminent Buddhist Women
Eminent Buddhist Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eminent Buddhist Women write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 2014-08-25. Eminent Buddhist Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women across the centuries and across the Buddhist world. Eminent Buddhist Women reveals the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women through the centuries. Despite the Buddhas own egalitarian values, Buddhism as a religion has been dominated by men for more than two thousand years. With few exceptions, the achievements of Buddhist women have remained hidden or ignored. The narratives in this book call into question the criteria for eminence in the Buddhist tradition and how these criteria are constructed and controlled. Each chapter pays a long-overdue tribute to one woman or a group of women from across the Buddhist world, including the West. Using a variety of sources, from orally transmitted legends to firsthand ethnographic research, contributors examine the key issues women face in their practice of Buddhist ethics, contemplation, and social action. What emerges are Buddhist principles that transcend gender: loving kindness, compassion, wisdom, spiritual attainment, and liberation. In her chapter What Is a Relevant Role Model? Rita Gross describes the need for more stories about Buddhist women, particularly those whose feats are not so fabled as to seem out of reach for contemporary practitioners. This volume advances that objective, mapping the paths of numerous, often lesser-known women who have dedicated their lives to Buddhism and inspired their communities. Buddhadharma Educational and inspirational, this important collection will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike. Hsiao-Lan Hu, author of This-Worldly Nibb?na: A Buddhist-Feminist Social Ethic for Peacemaking in the Global Community
Sisters in Solitude
Sisters in Solitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sisters in Solitude write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 1996-11-01. Sisters in Solitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sakyadhita
Sakyadhita - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sakyadhita write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 2015. Sakyadhita available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
