Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia : Rediscovering the invisible believers. /Garima Kaushik
Material type: TextPublisher number: SARAS Books | ;2/31,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Delhi :Routledge India , 2016Description: 299 Pages ;24 cmISBN: 97881138667518Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women -- India -- HistoryDDC classification: 950 KAUItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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List of Map and Figures. List of Plates. Acknowledgements. Preface. List of diacritical marks. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Sacred Spaces and the Feminine in Buddhism 2. Locating the Bhiksuni: Identifying Nunneries 3. Exploring Women's Space: Conflict between The Social and the Asocial Worlds 4. Women as Patrons Conclusion. Bibliography. Index
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 'Bhiksu' or 'Bhiksuni 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.
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