Preliminary Practices: Bloody Knees, Calloused Palms, and the Transformative Nature of Women’s Labor
In this article, I explore the prostration accumulation portion of the Preliminary Practices of a specific group of Tibetan Buddhist women in Bongwa Mayma, a rural area of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. I focus specifically on the nuns and lay women who utilize this set of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2020]
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Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 12 |
| Further subjects: | B
Women
B Amitabha B Tibetan Buddhism B Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture B religious labor B Buddhism B Drikung Kagyu B Nuns B Preliminary Practices B Qinghai B lay women B prostrations |
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