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The Tibetan nun Mingyur Peldrön : a woman of power and privilege
- Title
- The Tibetan nun Mingyur Peldrön : a woman of power and privilege / Alison Melnick Dyer.
- Author
- Melnick Dyer, Alison
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 225 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurmé Ösel, to consider how privilege influences individual authority, how authoritative Buddhist women have negotiated their position in gendered contexts, and how the lives of historical Buddhist women are (and are not) memorialized by their communities. Mingyur Peldrön's story challenges the dominant paradigms of women in religious life and adds nuance to our ideas about the history of gendered engagement in religious institutions. Her example serves as a means for better understanding of how gender can be both masked and asserted in the search for authority-operations that have wider implications for religious and political developments in eighteenth-century Tibet. In its engagement with Tibetan history, this study also illuminates the relationships between the Geluk and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism from the eighteenth century, to the nonsectarian developments of the nineteenth century"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
- Contents
- Note to the Reader -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. A Privileged Life -- 2. Authorizing the Saint -- 3. Multivocal Lives -- 4. Mingyur Peldrön the Diplomat -- 5. The Death of Mingyur Peldrön and the Making of a Saint -- Tibetan Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-5012
- ISBN
- 9780295750354
- 0295750359
- 9780295750361
- 0295750367
- LCCN
- 2021050724
- 40031323821
- OCLC
- 1300755315
- Author
- Melnick Dyer, Alison, author.
- Title
- The Tibetan nun Mingyur Peldrön : a woman of power and privilege / Alison Melnick Dyer.
- Publisher
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Melnick Dyer, Alison. Tibetan nun Mingyur Peldrön Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2022 9780295750378 (DLC) 2021050725
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40031323821
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-5012