Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice
In Search of the Female Renunciant
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 November 2013
- ISBN 9780199760015
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 231x155x22 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 in reinscribing colonialist and patriarchal stories about Buddhist women? In what ways have recent debates contributed to the construction of the subject of the Theravada bhikkhuni? How do key Buddhist concepts such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practices? Salgado's provocative analysis of modern discourses about the supposed empowerment of nuns challenges interpretations of female renunciation articulated in terms of secular notions such as ''freedom'' in renunciation, and questions the idea that the higher ordination of nuns constitutes a movement in which female renunciants act as agents seeking to assert their autonomy in a struggle against patriarchal norms. Salgado argues that the concept of a global sisterhood of nuns-an idea grounded in a notion of equality as a universal ideal-promotes a discourse of dominance about the lives of non-Western women and calls for more nuanced readings of the everyday renunciant practices and lives of Buddhist nuns.
Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between religion and power, subjectivity and gender, and feminism and postcolonialism.
A good corrective to much scholarship on the practices and lives of Buddhist nuns and therefore deserves serious attention by all scholars of Buddhism.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Narration
1 Decolonizing Female Renunciation
2 Institutional Discourse and Everyday Practice
3 Buddhism, Power, and Practice
Part II Identity
4 Invisible Nuns
5 Subjects of Renunciation
6 Becoming Bhikkhunis, Becoming Theravada
Part III Empowerment
7 Renunciation and ''Empowerment''
8 Global Empowerment and the Renunciant Everyday
Notes
Works Cited
Index
