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Women under the bo tree examines the tradition of female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka. The study is textual, historical, and anthropological, and links ancient tradition with contemporary practice.
Tessa Bartholomeusz utilizes data based on her field experiences in many contemporary cloisters: the history of the re-emergence of Buddhist female renouncers in the late nineteenth century after a hiatus of several hundred years; the reasons why women renounce; the variety of expressions of female world-renunciation; and, above all, attitudes about women and monasticism that have either prohibited women from renouncing or have encouraged them to do so.
One of the most striking discoveries of the study is that the fortunes of Buddhist female renouncers is tied to the fortunes of Buddhism in Sri Lanka more generally, and to perceived notions of Sri Lanka as the caretaker of Buddhism.
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Buddhist Monasticism and religious orders for women, Buddhist nuns, Interactive computer systems, Congresses, User interfaces (Computer systems), Nonnes bouddhistes, Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins bouddhiques, Monachisme et ordres religieux bouddhiques féminins, Buddhism, sri lanka, Buddhist monasticism and religious orders, Monasticism and religious orders for women, Buddhist womenPlaces
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Women under the Bō tree: Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka
1994, Cambridge University Press
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0521461294 9780521461290
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
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