[PDF.67nu] Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant

Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant

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 | #1820884 in Books |  2013-10-18 |  2013-10-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.80 x9.20l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Smart read|By Beau Reed|Unfortunately, while I did find a lot within this book very inciteful, I was wanting more from the perspective of the Nuns as the title suggests; however, much is glossed over by the texts Salgado punishes other writers for using so closely. Her point also gets confused throughout the book while she is trying to push her own Westernized ideologies to the| ||"A good corrective to much scholarship on the practices and lives of Buddhist nuns and therefore deserves serious attention by all scholars of Buddhism." --CHOICE||"This brilliant and unsettling work enjoins us to think the 'everyday life' of Buddhis

Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist "concepts" such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practice? Salgado's provocative analysis questions the secular noti...

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