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Women and monastic Buddhism in early South Asia : rediscovering the invisible believers

Title
Women and monastic Buddhism in early South Asia : rediscovering the invisible believers / Garima Kaushik.
Author
Kaushik, Garima
Publication
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
ix, 284 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.
Summary
This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category--thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse--this monograph examines their sustained role in the larger context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms their agency. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members, etc. within Buddhism. The volume also investigates the individual experiences of the members, and their equations and relationships at different levels--with the Samgha at large, with their own respective Bhikşu or Bhikşunī Sangha, with the laity, and with members of the same gender (both lay and monastic). It rereads, reconfigures and reassesses historical data in order to arrive at a new understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which it developed and flourished.
Series Statement
Archaeology and Religion in South Asia
Uniform Title
Archaeology and religion in South Asia.
Subject
  • Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women > India > History
  • Buddhism > India > History
  • Buddhist women > India > History
  • Buddhism
  • Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women
  • Buddhist women
  • India
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Sacred spaces and the feminine in Buddhism -- Locating the bhikşunī : identifying nunneries -- Exploring women's space : conflict between the social and the asocial worlds -- Women as patrons -- Conclusion.
Call Number
JFD 19-4162
ISBN
  • 9781138100015
  • 1138100013
  • 9781138667518
  • 113866751X
LCCN
2016330825
OCLC
935690972
Author
Kaushik, Garima, author.
Title
Women and monastic Buddhism in early South Asia : rediscovering the invisible believers / Garima Kaushik.
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Archaeology and Religion in South Asia
Archaeology and religion in South Asia.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 19-4162
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