Buddhist Women on the Edge Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier

Name: Buddhist Women on the Edge Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier
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ISBN: 9781556432033

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Authors: Marianne Dresser

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As Buddhism is assimilated into the West, it is imperative that women reshape its patriarchal structures and carve out a fully legitimate, empowering position for themselves. Marianne Dresser brings together the likes of Pema Chodron, Tsultrim Allione, and bell hooks, 30 women in all, who are doing just that. Writers, nuns, scholars, priests--even a martial arts master and a private investigator--discuss women in Buddhism in a range of essays. Several pieces question the suppression of emotion required for selflessness, appealing to the undeniable reality of day-to-day living. Others discuss their experiences as women in Buddhism, whether as nuns or as lay practitioners. Still others…

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 8/22/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Editor's Introduction


Wild, Wise, Passionate: Dakinis in America



Form, Emptiness; Emptiness, Form



Sounds of Silence



Persons and Possibilities



What Is the Emotional Life of a Buddha?



The Light of Outrage: Women, Anger, and Buddhist Practice



Bowing, Not Scraping



Unlearning Silence: A Further Feminist Revaluation of Buddhist Practice



Buddhism and Race: An African American Baptist-Buddhist Perspective



Outside In: Buddhism in America



The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism



Walking a Few Steps Farther



The Ruthlessness of the Practice of Compassion



Community, Work, Relationship, and Family: Renunciation and Balance in American Buddhist Practice



Romantic Vision, Everyday Disappoinment



My Tantric Flip-Flop



Watering the Garden with My Eyes Closed



A Short History of Buddhists at The Tracks



Frontier Buddhism



Not To Injure Life: A Visit with Ruth Denison



Suzuki Sensei's Zen Spirit



Coming Home



You're Becoming a What? Living as a Western Buddhist Nun



Fertile Ground for a Warrior



The Dark Clue



Wholeheartedness



Poetry as Siddhi



The Province of the Saved



Contemplation and Transformation



No Right, No Wrong



Glossary


Selected Bibliography


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