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Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas
Kim Gutschow
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| #1362804 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2004-07-15 | 2004-08-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.94 x6.13l,1.46 | File type: PDF | 376 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| informative and fascinating|By harborsparrow|This is a fascinating read; I learned a lot more about this type of Buddhism and a lot more about this part of the world. It's really unfortunate that, over the centuries, so much politics and power issues have infiltrated Buddhism. The plight of the women living in these monasteries is probably better (in some cases) than if they|From Publishers Weekly|Gutschow, a visiting assistant professor in religion at Williams College, spent over a decade living in various Buddhist nunneries in the Zangskar region of Kashmir to produce a thoroughgoing ethnography describing the "alternative society
They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow li...
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