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 2013-09-20. 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 Position of Women in Ancient Indian Buddhism
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 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.
Poems of the First Buddhist Women
Poems of the First 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 Poems of the First Buddhist Women write by . This book was released on 2021-02-23. Poems of the First Buddhist Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Therīgāthā is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally collected as part of the Pali canon of Buddhist scripture. These poems were written by some of the first Buddhist women—therīs—honored for their religious achievements. Through imaginative verses about truth and freedom, the women recount their lives before ordination and their joy at attaining liberation from samsara. Poems of the First Buddhist Women offers startling insights into the experiences of women in ancient times that continue to resonate with modern readers. With a spare and elegant style, this powerful translation introduces us to a classic of world literature.
Women Under Primitive Buddhism
Women Under Primitive 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 Under Primitive Buddhism write by I. B. Horner. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Women Under Primitive Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the second of seven volumes that will present a complete and fully annotated translation of the Valmiki Ramayana of the seven sections of this great Sanskrit epic, the Ayodhyakanda is the most human, and it remains one of the best introductions to the social and political values of traditional India. This readable translation is accompanied by a commentary that elucidates the various problems of the text, whether philological, aesthetic, or cultural. Extensive use is made in the annotations of the numerous commentaries on the Ramayana composed in medieval India. The substantial introduction supplies a historical context for the poem and a critical reading that explores its literary and ideological components. The volumes of this work will present the entire Ramayana, translated here for the first time on the basis of the critical edition (Oriental Institute, baroda), which takes into account manuscripts representing all regional traditions.
