The Position of Women in Ancient Indian Buddhism - 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 The Position of Women in Ancient Indian Buddhism write by . This book was released on 2018. The Position of Women in Ancient Indian Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women in Early Indian Buddhism
Women in Early Indian Buddhism - 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 Women in Early Indian Buddhism write by Alice Collett. This book was released on 2013-10-18. Women in Early Indian Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The path of practice as taught in ancient India by Gotama Buddha was open to both women and men. The texts of early Indian Buddhism show that women were lay followers of the Buddha and were also granted the right to ordain and become nuns. Certain women were known as influential teachers of men and women alike and considered experts in certain aspects of Gotama's dhamma. For this to occur in an ancient religion practiced within traditional societies is really quite extraordinary. This is apparent especially in light of the continued problems experienced by practitioners of many religions today involved in challenging instilled norms and practices and conferring the status of any high office upon women. In this collection, Alice Collett brings together a sampling of the plethora of Buddhist texts from early Indian Buddhism in which women figure centrally. It is true that there are negative conceptualizations of and attitudes towards women expressed in early Buddhist texts, but for so many texts concerning women to have been composed, collated and preserved is worthy of note. The simple fact that the Buddhist textual record names so many nuns and laywomen, and preserves biographies of them, attests to a relatively positive situation for women at that time. With the possible exception of the reverence accorded Egyptian queens, there is no textual record of named women from an ancient civilization that comes close to that of early Indian Buddhism. This volume offers comparative study of texts in five different languages - Gandhari, Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Sinhala. Each chapter is a study and translation, with some chapters focusing more on translation and some more on comparisons between parallel and similar texts, whilst others are more discursive and thematic.
The Status of Women in Ancient India
The Status of Women in Ancient India - 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 The Status of Women in Ancient India write by Indra. This book was released on 1955. The Status of Women in Ancient India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia - 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 Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia write by Garima Kaushik. This book was released on 2016-02-12. Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism
Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism - 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 Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism write by Douglas Osto. This book was released on 2008-11-19. Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the concepts of power, wealth and women in the important Mahayana Buddhist scripture known as the Gandavyuha-sutra, and relates these to the text’s social context in ancient Indian during the Buddhist Middle Period (0–500 CE). Employing contemporary textual theory, worldview analysis and structural narrative theory, the author puts forward a new approach to the study of Mahayana Buddhist sources, the ‘systems approach’, by which literature is viewed as embedded in a social system. Consequently, he analyses the Gandavyuha in the contexts of reality, society and the individual, and applies these notions to the key themes of power, wealth and women. The study reveals that the spiritual hierarchy represented within the Gandavyuha replicates the political hierarchies in India during Buddhism’s Middle Period, that the role of wealth mirrors its significance as a sign of spiritual status in Indian Buddhist society, and that the substantial number of female spiritual guides in the narrative reflects the importance of royal women patrons of Indian Buddhism at the time. This book will appeal to higher-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of religious studies, Buddhist studies, Asian studies, South Asian studies and Indology.
