Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2008
Disciplines
Buddhist Studies | Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Abstract
This book is the result of years of collaboration among hundreds of women from many different cultural backgrounds, speaking from their own first-hand experience of living, working, practicing, and communicating across cultures. The essays included here touch on many aspects of Buddhist culture and Buddhist women’s pioneering efforts to expand their cultural horizons through travel, education, meditation, and social activism. The essays document the achievements of women and the contributions they have made, not only to their own families, temples, and communities, but also to multicultural dialogue internationally.
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Tsomo, Karma Lekshe PhD, "Buddhist Women in a Global Multicultural Community" (2008). Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship. 1.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/thrs-faculty/1
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Notes
Table of Contents
Contributors | xiii
Introduction | xx
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
DIALOGUE ACROSS CULTURES: GLOBAL NETWORKS
1 Roots/Routes: Transmitting the Buddhadharma across Time and Place: Challenges and Implications for Contemporary Buddhist Women | 3
Sharon A. Suh
2 Pioneering Buddhist Women across Cultures | 10
Hema Goonatilake
3 Korean Buddhist Women’s Reflections on the 8th
Sakyadhita Conference | 20
Bongak Sunim
4 Transforming Differences into Strengths: The Case of Buddhists in Singapore | 26
Ai-Girl Tan
5 Women’s Spirituality, Sensuality and Sources of Sustenance: A Crosscultural Psychological Examination | 36
Julie Thomas
RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN GLOBAL BUDDHISM
6 Beyond Caste, Sexism, and Racism: Re-establishing
Buddhadhamma in the Land of the Buddha | 51
Dharmacharini Karunamaya and Dharmacharini Jnanasuri
7 What’s Buddhism Have To Do With Black Women? | 59
Zenjū Earthlyn M. Manuel
8 Losing Ground in Gender Equality in a Multicultural Society: Buddhist Women’s Experience in Nepal | 69
Sumon K. Tuladhar
BRIDGING CULTURE IN ART
9 Music for the Heart and Soul | 77
Imee Ooi
10 Singing the Dharma: Practise through Music | 80
Hyeseon Sunim
11 Understanding Buddhism through Fiction Films | 85
Hyangsoon Yi
12 Enlightenment in the Chan Paintings of Bhikṣuṇī Hiuwan | 90
Jenlang Shih
BUDDHIST WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL CULTURES
13 Contextualising Guanyin: Buddhist Philosophy and the Effect of Gender Divisions | 101
Adrienne Cochran
14 Buddhism, Shamanism, and Women in Korean History | 108
Jeong-Hee Kim
15 Teaching Thien Vietnam across Cultures | 118
Hue Can
16 Buddhist Nuns in Malaysia | 122
Seet Lee Terk
17 The Buddha and the Spirit World: Healing Praxis in a Himalayan Monastery | 129
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
PHOTOGRAPHS 139
BUDDHIST WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURES
18 Thai Buddhist Nuns and the Thai Buddhist Nuns’ Institute | 149
Kritsana Raksachom
19 Contributions of Buddhist Women in the Malaysian Buddhist Youth Movement | 153
Ai Sim Hea
20 Bhiksunī is as Leaders in Contemporary Taiwan | 160
Hong-Xiang Shi
21 New Opportunities and Challenges for Buddhist Women in Nepal | 165
Bhikkhunī Nyanawati
22 Buddhist Women in Canada: Researching Identity and Influence | 171
Mavis Fenn
23 Hospice Care from a Buddhist Perspective: A Spiritual Path for Both Patients and Hospice Volunteers | 178
Pik Pin Goh
24 Women’s Buddhist Practise in the U.S.: The 2005 Conference at Smith College |183
Susanne Mrozik
BHIKṢUṆĪ VINAYA AND FULL ORDINATION FOR WOMEN
25 The Gender Issue in Contemporary Taiwan Buddhism | 189
Yu-Chen Li
26 Visible and Invisible Obstacles Facing the Bhikkhuṇī
Movement in Thailand | 200
Kulavir Prapapornpipat
27 Generation to Generation: Transmitting the Bhikṣuṇī
Lineage in the Tibetan Tradition | 205
Jampa Tsedroen
28 Buddhist Monasticism in a Consumer Culture | 216
Tenzin Palmo
INNOVATIVE INSTITUTIONS FOR BUDDHIST WOMEN
29 Starting a Tibetan Learning Centre for Nuns in South India | 223
Tenzin Yangdon
30 Buddhist Women at Wat Paknam in Bangkok | 226
Amphai Tansomboon
31 Ashram Mata Meditation Centre for Women: A Hermitage
for Buddhist Practise | 237
Tipawan Tipayatuss
32 Initial Six Years of the First Buddhist College for Nuns and
Laywomen in Thailand | 240
Monica Lindberg Falk and Srisalab Upamai
TRANSLATING THE DHARMA: BUDDHISM, MULTICULTURALISM, AND LANGUAGE
33 You Don’t Understand Me: Respectful Listening Skills | 249
Malia Dominica Wong
34 The Name of the Nun: Towards the Use of Inclusive Language and True Equality in the Buddhist Community | 260
Christie Yu-Ling Chang
35 Translating the Dharma and Gender Discrimination: The Blame Should Be on Us | 267
Shobha Rani Dash
36 The Language of Tibetan Nuns in the Indian Himalayas: Continuities as Change | 274
Carole Winklemann
37 The Net of Indra: A Writing Workshop on Women’s
Global Connectedness | 282
Sandy Boucher
PHOTOGRAPHS 287
Bibliography 295
Index 301
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Original publication information:
Tsomo, Karma Lekshe (Ed.). (2008). Buddhist Women in a Global Multicultural Community. Sukhi Hotu Dhamma Publications.