Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas
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It is common for practitioners and scholars of South and Southeast Asian Buddhism to deny the authenticity of ideas about female impurity found in Buddhist texts or contemporary practice or to attribute them to the influence of the purity-obsessed Brahman tradition.
“It is common for practitioners and scholars of South and Southeast Asian Buddhism to deny the authenticity of ideas about female impurity found in Buddhist texts or contemporary practice or to attribute them to the influence of the purity-obsessed Brahman tradition (Sponberg 1992: 24; Hamilton 1995: 59 -60; Gutschow 2004: 207; Young 2004: 179 -185; Tuladhar 2008: 69 -74).”
From Buddhist Blood Taboo: Mary Douglas, Female Impurity, and Classical Indian Buddhism (2015) · cites this paper as Gutschow 2004: 207
Buddhist autobiography and ethnographic work in South and Southeast Asian Buddhist countries shows that women's status and self-understanding has suffered collateral damage as a result of authoritative discourse on female impurity.
“Still, Buddhist autobiography and ethnographic work conducted in South and Southeast Asian Buddhist countries shows that women ' s status and self-understanding has suffered collateral damage as a result of this type of authoritative discourse on female impurity (see Gutschow 2004: 259 -284; Schaeffer 2004; Prapapornpipat 2008: 203).”
From Buddhist Blood Taboo: Mary Douglas, Female Impurity, and Classical Indian Buddhism (2015) · cites this paper as Gutschow 2004: 259 -284
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- Authors
- Gutschow, K.
- Corresponding author
- Gutschow, Kim
- ORCID
- Gutschow, Kim
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2004-12-31
- OpenAlex
- W4206955675
- Cited by
- 118
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.72
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Early Modern Women Writers
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Keywords
- Buddhist nuns, women religious, Buddhist monasticism, women in Buddhism, gender and religion
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