Feminist Buddhism as Praxis: Women in Traditional Buddhism

This paper discusses a project the author has been engaged in since 1994 with women in the Japanese Buddhist community who are working across sectarian boundaries to recreate a Buddhism that goes beyond patriarchy. While the celibacy prized by many Buddhist orders that profess renunciation of secula...

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Main Author: Kawahashi, Noriko (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Nanzan Institute [2003]
In: Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2003, Volume: 30, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 291-313
Further subjects:B Women
B Buddhist renunciation
B Gender Equality
B Feminism
B Priests
B Men
B Nuns
B Wives
B gender discrimination
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