Taiwans Buddhist Nuns
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Author | : Elise Anne DeVido |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 143843149X |
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Explores the milieu of Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist world and a prominent place in their own country.
Author | : Chün-fang Yü |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824837983 |
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The term “revival” has been used to describe the resurgent vitality of Buddhism in Taiwan. Particularly impressive is the quality and size of the nun’s order: Taiwanese nuns today are highly educated and greatly outnumber monks. Both characteristics are unprecedented in the history of Chinese Buddhism and are evident in the Incense Light community (Xiangguang). Passing the Light is the first in-depth case study of the community, which was founded in 1974 and remains a small but influential order of highly educated nuns who dedicate themselves to teaching Buddhism to lay adults. The work begins with a historical survey of Buddhist nuns in China, based primarily on the sixth-century biographical collection Lives of the Nuns and stories of nuns in subsequent centuries. This is followed by discussions on the early history of the Incense Light community; the life of Wuyin, one of its most prominent leaders; and the crucial role played by Buddhist studies societies on college campuses, where many nuns were first introduced to Incense Light. Later chapters look at the curriculum and innovative teaching methods at the Incense Light seminary and the nuns’ efforts to teach Buddhism to adults. The work ends with portraits of individual nuns, providing details on their backgrounds, motivations for becoming nuns, and the problems or setbacks they have encountered both within and without the Incense Light community. This engaging study enriches the literature on the history of Buddhist nuns, seminaries, and education, and will find an appreciative audience among scholars and students of Chinese religion, especially Buddhism, as well as those interested in questions of religion and modernity and women and religion.
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Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
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ISBN | : 113416811X |
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Author | : ELISE A. DE VIDO |
Publisher | : Bibliorossica |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
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ENG: Taiwan's Buddhist nuns are as unique as they are noteworthy. Boasting the greatest number of Buddhist nuns of any country, Taiwan has a much greater number of nuns than monks. These women are well known and well regarded as dharma teachers and for the social service work that has made them a central part of Taiwan's civil society. In this, the first English-language book on Taiwanese women and Buddhism, author Elise Ann DeVido introduces readers to Taiwan's Buddhist nuns, but also looks at the larger question of how Taiwan's Buddhism shapes and is shaped by women--mainly nuns but also laywomen, who like their clerical sisters flourish in that country. RUS: На острове Тайвань проживает самое большое количество буддийских монахинь в мире. Эти женщины хорошо известны и почитаемы как религиозные наставницы, а также благодаря социальной работе, позволившей им стать ядром тайваньского гражданского общества. В этой книге Элиза де Видо знакомит читателей с буддийскими монахинями Тайваня и рассматривает вопрос о том, как буддизм Тайваня формируется женщинами -- как монахинями, так и мирянками.
Author | : Wei-Yi Cheng |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134168101 |
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Taking a comparative approach, this fieldwork-based study explores the lives and thoughts of Buddhist nuns in present-day Taiwan and Sri Lanka. The author examines the postcolonial background and its influence on the modern situation, as well as surveying the main historical, economic, and social factors which influence the position of nuns in society. Based on original research, including interviews with nuns in both countries, the book examines their perspectives on controversial issues and in particular those concerning the status of women in Buddhism. Concerns discussed include allegedly misogynist teachings relating to women’s inferior karma, that they cannot become Buddhas, and that nuns have to follow additional rules that monks do not. Bridging the gap between feminist theory and the reality of women in religion, the book makes a distinct contribution to the study of women in Buddhism by focusing on nuns from both of the main wings of Buddhism (Theravada and Mahayana) as well as furthering feminist studies of Buddhism and religion in general.
Author | : ELISE A. DE VIDO |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
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ISBN | : 9788887195590 |
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Author | : Meei-Hwa Chern |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
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Author | : Amy DeBoer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Buddhist nuns |
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This thesis intends to discover the reasons behind the plethora of nuns in Taiwanese Buddhism by looking at what specific opportunities are offered by the Buddhist monasteries in Taiwan. In addition, this thesis will also show how Feminist theory is not a part of the decision for most Taiwanese women who become nuns and that it is not an area of concern for the ordained nuns.
Author | : Yuzhen Li |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
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Author | : Kim Gutschow |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0674038088 |
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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 lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals. A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.