Preface Mahaprajapati's Legacy: The Buddhist Women's Movement: An Introduction Karma Lekshe Tsomo Part I: Buddhist Women in Asian Traditions South Asian Traditions 1. The Female in Buddhism Elizabeth J. Harris 2. Buddhist Women in India and Precolonial Sri Lanka Lorna Dewaraja 3. Restoring the Order of Nuns to the Theravadin Tradition Senarat Wijayasundara East Asian Traditions 4. The Red Cord Untied: Buddhist Nuns in Eighteenth-Century China Beata Grant 5. Japanese Buddhist Nuns: Innovators for the Sake of Tradition Paula K. R. Arai 6. Can Women Achieve Enlightenment? A Critique of Sexual Transformation for Enlightenment Hae-ju Sunim (Ho-Ryeon Jeon) The Tibetan Tradition 7. Tibetan Buddhist Women Practitioners, Past and Present: A Garland to Delight Those Wishing Inspiration Janice D. Willis 8. Pregnancy and Childbirth in Tibetan Culture Sarah Pinto 9. Change in Consciousness: Women's Religious Identity in Himalayan Buddhist Cultures Karma Lekshe Tsomo Part II: Contemporary Buddhist Women Forging Identity 10. Conception and the Entry of Consciousness: When Does a Life Begin? Cait Collins 11. East, West, Women, and Self Anne C. Klein 12. Appropriate Treasure? Reflections on Women, Buddhism, and Cross-Cultural Exchange Sara Shneiderman Shaping New Traditions: Unity and Diversity 13. Comparing Buddhist and Christian Women's Experiences Karma Lekshe Tsomo 14. Aung San Suu Kyi: A Woman of Conscience in Burma Theja Gunawardhana 15. A Model for Laywomen in Buddhism: The Western Buddhist Order Dharmacharini Sanghadevi 16. Feminism, Lay Buddhism, and the Future of Buddhism Rita M. Gross Epilogue Karma Lekshe Tsomo Bibliography List of Contributors Index
Karma Lekshe Tsomo is Instructor of Buddhism at Chaminade University and Degree Fellow at the East-West Center. She has written several books including Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women, also published by SUNY Press, and most recently, Living and Dying in Buddhist Cultures (with David W. Chappell).
"The topics of women and feminist interpretation have become very important in many academic fields in the humanities and social sciences. Buddhist studies is no exception. Indeed, the feminine, women, sexuality, and gender have virtually become a subfield in Buddhist studies. So, the topic of this book is important in its own right but also for what it contributes to other fields. What strikes me as especially valuable about this volume is its relatively synoptic/inclusive nature, thereby giving it a very timely role in the current literature on Buddhism, women, and sexuality." - Donald K. Swearer, author of The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia "What I like most about this book is the scope-feminism/Buddhism-in cross- cultural contexts. There is no other book like it. Buddhist Women Across Cultures articulates vital strands of the process which the author so aptly terms the 'feminization of Buddhism.' "This is the only anthology that really works with these issues from cross-cultural and feminist perspectives. This insight makes the anthology stand out in the rapidly growing area of Buddhism/feminism-perhaps the key book to reconfigure the field at present and for some time to come." - Jeffner Allen, State University of New York at Binghamton
"The topics of women and feminist interpretation have become very important in many academic fields in the humanities and social sciences. Buddhist studies is no exception. Indeed, the feminine, women, sexuality, and gender have virtually become a subfield in Buddhist studies. So, the topic of this book is important in its own right but also for what it contributes to other fields. What strikes me as especially valuable about this volume is its relatively synoptic/inclusive nature, thereby giving it a very timely role in the current literature on Buddhism, women, and sexuality." - Donald K. Swearer, author of The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia "What I like most about this book is the scope-feminism/Buddhism-in cross- cultural contexts. There is no other book like it. Buddhist Women Across Cultures articulates vital strands of the process which the author so aptly terms the 'feminization of Buddhism.' "This is the only anthology that really works with these issues from cross-cultural and feminist perspectives. This insight makes the anthology stand out in the rapidly growing area of Buddhism/feminism-perhaps the key book to reconfigure the field at present and for some time to come." - Jeffner Allen, State University of New York at Binghamton
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