[PDF.58df] Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

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 | #1807560 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2012-04-01 |  2012-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.70 x9.10l,.83 | File type: PDF | 268 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Scholar with a Heart|By Buddhist Bookworm|Paula Kane Robinson Arai has impressed me with this book. Most scholarly books on Zen cover a narrow topic with written sources. This is an ethnography, which means the author spent many months living with the nuns while having a university background to enrich and contextualize the information and teachings given to her. The scholarly| ||"...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 |||About the Author|Paula Kane Robi

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 the Soto nuns, Arai demonstrates that the lives of many of these women embody classical Buddhist ideals. They have chosen to lea...

You easily download any file type for your device.Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns   |  Paula Kane Robinson Arai. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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