Women Living Zen Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

Name: Women Living Zen Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns
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ISBN: 9780195123937

ISBN-10: 019512393X

ISBN-13: 9780195123937

Edition: 1999

Authors: Paula Kane Robinson Arai

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In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to the present day. Drawing on her fieldwork among the Soto nuns, Arai demonstrates that the lives of many of these women embody classical Buddhist ideals. They have chosen to lead a strictly disciplined monastic life over against successful careers and the unconstrained contemporary secular lifestyle. In this, and other respects, they can be shown to stand in stark contrast to their male…

Book details

List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/26/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Prologue



Introduction



Historical Background



Twentieth-Century Leadership



The Monastic Practices of Zen Nuns



Motivations, Commitments, and Self-Perceptions



Conclusion: Innovators for the Sake of Tradition



Questionnaire



Glossary of Japanese Terms