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How can women discover who they are? Do all women share certain essential qualities? Can people change themselves in fundamental ways? Or are our identities primarily shaped by environment, to be changed only from without?
Of the many women searching for answers to these questions, relatively few have turned to Buddhism for insight. Yet, similar debates are central to traditional Buddhist thought. Is enlightenment already present in everyone, Buddhists ask, merely awaiting discovery? Or can it be developed only through cultivation of certain qualities?
In this groundbreaking work, Anne Klein becomes the first scholar to put Buddhist and feminist thoughts on identity in conversation with each other. Despite the daunting barriers of geography, language, and culture that separate them, Buddhism and contemporary feminism have much to say to each other.
Buddhist practices such as mindfulness - in which calm centering and keen awareness of change coexist - and compassion - in which the self is recognized as both powerful in itself and interdependently connected with all others - can be important resources for contemporary Western women. Likewise, feminism can expand the traditional horizons of Buddhist concerns to include social, historical, and psychological issues.
The image and ritual of the Great Bliss Queen, an important Buddhist figure of enlightenment, form the unifying image of the book, modeling the practices and theory that can assist each of us in being at one with ourselves as well as fully open to engagement with others.
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Buddhism, Religious aspects of Feminism, Religious aspects of Women, Women, Feminism, Social aspects of Buddhism, Vrouwen, Boeddhisme, Women, religious aspects, Feminism, religious aspects, Buddhism, china, tibet autonomous region, Buddhism, doctrines, Feminist theology, Religious aspects, Social aspectsEdition | Availability |
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Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self
February 25, 2008, Snow Lion Publications
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in English
1559392916 9781559392914
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Meeting the great bliss queen: Buddhists, feminists, and the art of the self.
1995, Beacon P.
in English
0807073075 9780807073070
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Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, feminists, and the art of the self
1995, Beacon Press
in English
0807073067 9780807073063
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