Socially Engaged Buddhist Nuns: Activism in Taiwan and North America [PDF]
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015 The last decades of the twentieth century have been a time of new visibility and social activism for Buddhists in Taiwan and around the world. This paper compares the social engagement of nuns in the Chinese Buddhist tradition in Taiwan and North America.
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
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Nuns Involving in the Affairs of the World. The Depiction of Buddhist Nuns in Bhavabhūti's Mālatīmādhava. [PDF]
, 2012 In Bhavabhūti's play, the Mālatīmādhava, we find the characters of three Buddhist nuns. Though by no means negative or disreputable characters, these nuns nevertheless display a behaviour that contravenes some explicitly stated precepts of the Buddhist dharma, such as lying, acting as go-betweens and encouraging others to commit suicide.
Feller, Danielle
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More Than Childbirth: Unveiling the Risks of Marriage on Women's Mortality in Tang Dynasty China. [PDF]
Am J Hum BiolABSTRACT Objectives This study investigates how marital and maternal statuses influenced female mortality in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 ce), China. It challenges the focus on reproductive risks by exploring both biological and social factors affecting female mortality in reproductive and post‐reproductive years.
Liu Y.
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Community-based participatory research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among Tibetan Buddhist monks in South India: The Lifestyle Assessment and Monastic Aging Study (LAMAS). [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstract INTRODUCTION This protocol paper describes the methodology used in designing and conducting community‐based participatory research (CBPR) to estimate the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among Tibetan Buddhist monks.
Namdul T +6 more
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Cultivating a 'Habitus of Multiplicity' in Cross-Cultural Medicine: From Case Study Conflict to Many-Sided Conditions of Care Through Process and Jain Metaphysics. [PDF]
Nurs PhilosABSTRACT Prompted by a nursing case study that occurred in 2022, this paper joins the perspectives of a nurse practitioner and cross‐cultural medical ethics professor to consider who can ask a question in the healthcare system, what questions can be heard, and how to develop pluralistic care models—beyond relativism and imperialism—that solicit more ...
Donaldson B.
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Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022 This paper introduces the works of two Vietnamese Buddhist nuns in Taiwan. They both envision a permanent or long-term stay in Taiwan and have purchased properties to function as their temples. They provide services to the Vietnamese diaspora.
Wei-Yi Cheng
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TRANSFORMATION OF CHAN-BUDDHIST MOTIFS IN MONASTERY POETRY OF THE SONG DYNASTY (GENDER ASPECT) [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2022 There are phenomena of Chan Buddhism as philosophical and religious dogma and embodiment of its rules in the center of the article. Study object is poetry of monks and nuns written during Song dynasty (lyrics of Dumu Jingang, Zhenru, Daoqian and ...
Anna V. Ryzhkova
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Ambedkar and the Buddha's Sangha: A Ground for Buddhist Ethics
Caste, 2021 The saṅgha is one of the three jewels of the Buddhist tradition. While undervalued in many other Anglophone iterations of Buddhist modernism, Ambedkar’s approach to Buddhism placed a reconceptualized saṅgha at the center.
Timothy Loftus
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Almost a proper Buddhist : the post-secular complexity of heritage Buddhist teen identity in Britain [PDF]
, 2014 This qualitative study explores how Buddhist affiliation relates to practice, how Buddhist teens define and experience their religious identity and which sociological paradigms are helpful in understanding the dynamics of Buddhist teen identity.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas +1 more
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Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China
Religions, 2022 This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist meditation in contemporary China.
Ngar-Sze Lau
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