Tibetan Buddhist Metaphors and Models of Motherhood
Motherhood is at the core of the central Buddhist metaphor for how we should treat one another. And yet within Buddhist texts there remains a deeply gendered chasm between the universalized Buddhist call to love all beings as if they were our mothers, an ideal embodied most often by male renunciates...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
[2021]
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Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-62 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bde-baʾi-rdo-rje 1892-1940
/ Autobiographical literature
/ Lamaism
/ Religious literature
/ Mother
/ Metaphor
/ Motherhood
/ Woman
/ Body
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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Tibetan Buddhism
B Motherhood B women's spiritual autobiography |
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