Women Living Zen
Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 July 2012
- ISBN 9780199928682
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 234x156x14 mm
- Weight 376 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 halftones; 1 line illustration 0
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Short description:
In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century.
MoreLong description:
"A long overdue corrective to the androcentric scholarship that has ignored Zen nuns' importance.... This very readable book is ideal for classroom use."-Religious Studies Review
"Arai's sensitive first-hand account is at times emotional, but the reflexive recollections that derive from her personal experiences and interactions with the nuns are insightful and well documented....the book is valuable in providing us with a different mode of appreciation in order to understand the position of women living in [an]other religious and cultural context."--Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
"This is an anthropological study, carried out with love, care, and attention to detail...By the end of the journey, readers will find themselves moved, their humanity reassured and refreshed."--Journal of Asian Studies
In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to the present day. Drawing on her fieldwork among Soto nuns, Arai demonstrates that the lives of many of these women embody classical Buddhist ideals. They have chosen to lead a strictly disciplined monastic life instead of pursuing careers or leading an unconstrained contemporary secular lifestyle. In this, and other respects, they can be shown to stand in stark contrast to their male counterparts.
...a long overdue corrective to the androcentric scholarship that has ignored Zen nuns' importance.... This very readable book is ideal for classroom use.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Transliteration Guide
Prologue
One: Introduction
Scholarly Contexts
Theoretical Considerations
Methodological Considerations
Two: Historical Background
Pioneering Monastics
Dogen and Women
Tokugawa Encroachments
Meiji Reclamations
Three: Twentieth-Century Leadership
First Generation: Rapid Ascent Through Education
Second Generation: Stategists of Egalitarianism
Third Generation: Zen Master of a New Tradition
Four: The Monastic Practices of Zen Nuns
Nuns' Vision of Monastic Life
Daily Life in a Monastery of Zen Nuns
Divisions within the Monastery
Ceremonial Rituals and Activities
Educational Curriculum and Degrees
The Aesthetics of Discipline
Five: Motivations, Commitments, and Self-Perceptions
Changing Life Patterns of Twentieth-Century Zen
Buddhist Practice: Meaning and Action
Nuns' Views on Monastic Life
Six: Conclusion: Innovators for the Sake of Tradition
Preservers and Creators of Buddhist Tradition
Bearers and Transmitters of Traditional Japanese Culture
Notes
Appendix A: Questionnaire
Appendix B: Glossary of Japanese Terms
Bibliography
Index
