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Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice : In Search of the Female Renunciant
ISBN: 9780199760015 | 0199760012
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/27/2013
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Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns. Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka as well as on interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's study invites a reconsideration of female renunciation. How do scholarly narratives continue to be complicit... MORE
Nirmala S. Salgado graduated from SOAS and Northwestern University. She has published widely on Buddhist nuns and teaches undergraduates at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.
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