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Khmer Nuns and Filial Debts: Buddhist Intersections in Contemporary Cambodia

Religions, 2022
Cambodian Buddhist nuns, including the white-robed ṭūn jī, occupy a fraught confluence of competing cultural and religious narratives. Chief among these narratives is gratitude to mothers, among the most powerful structuring forces in Khmer Buddhist ...
Trent Walker
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Female Education in a Chan Public Monastery in China: The Jiangxi Dajinshan Buddhist Academy for Nuns

Religions, 2022
The Great Chan Monastery of the Golden Mountain (Dajinshan Chansi 大金山禪寺) is a large monastic complex for nuns located in Jiangxi province in southeast China and belonging to the Chan meditation school.
Daniela Campo
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The Rise of Vietnamese Nuns: Views from the Buddhist Revival Movement (1931–1945)

Religions, 2022
In this article, with the aim of better understanding the development of Vietnamese Buddhist nuns, the period of the Buddhist revival movement is investigated. This event is considered a turning point for Vietnamese Buddhism. In addition, it will help to
Ninh Thi Sinh
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['Taiwan’s Buddhist Nuns, by Elise Anne DeVido.']

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015
article published in Journal of Global Buddhism; Vol 12 (2011)
Charles B. Jones
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Gender Equality in and on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns’ Terms

Religions, 2020
Gender equality and feminism are often cast as concepts foreign to the Tibetan cultural region, even as scholarship exploring alliances between Buddhism and feminism has grown.
Sarah Jacoby
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The startling phenomenon of the Western Tibetan Buddhist nun: the challenges faced by Western nuns in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition living outside the traditional Tibetan Buddhist regions

Journal for the Study of Religion, 2016
This article investigates the recent manifestation of a number of Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns and the challenges they face living outside traditional Himalayan nunneries. The lives of these nuns have been researched mainly by insiders such as scholarly
Elizabeth Swanepoel
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Four Chinese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Anxiety in Their Colophons to the Da banniepan jing 大般涅槃經

Religions, 2023
Many scholars of Buddhism believe that Buddhists (particularly Mahāyāna Buddhists) regularly reproduce scriptures for merit in general, regardless of their content.
Ruifeng Chen
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Taiwanese Nuns and Education Issues in Contemporary Taiwan

Religions, 2022
In this article, I discuss the Buddhist educational profile of nuns in contemporary Taiwan by introducing the development of monastic education for women.
Yu-Chen Li
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Gender Conflicts in Contemporary Korean Buddhism

Religions, 2023
Scholars have observed that Korean Buddhist nuns have a relatively high social status compared to nuns of other Asian countries, much like their sisters in Taiwan. It is a source of great pride for many Korean bhikṣuṇīs that their community operates with
Eun-su Cho
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Buddhist Women and Female Buddhist Education in the South China Sea: A History of the Singapore Girls’ Buddhist Institute

Religions, 2023
This paper studies the history of the Singapore Girls’ Buddhist Institute, the first and only modern Buddhist education institution for women in Singapore and Malaysia.
Ruo Lin
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