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 lead a strictly disciplined monastic life over against successful careers and the unconstrained contemporary secular lifestyle. In this, and other respects, they can be shown to stand in stark contrast to their male counterparts.
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"...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 Review
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Paula Kane Robinson Arai is at Vanderbilt University.
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only relatively recently become a salient category in the field of Buddhist studies. Furthermore, Zen Buddhist studies have primarily focused on textual documentation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sect administration, monastic women, sect regulations, epistemology judgments, sixteen precepts, monastic woman, traditional monastic life, founding nuns, monastic path, female monastics, monastic ranks, sect headquarters, alms gathering, sect institution, monastic regulations, worship hall, monastic training, most nuns, training monasteries, monastic lives, nuns today, teaching ranks, novice nuns, many nuns, monastic lifestyle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soto Zen, Twentieth-Century Leadership, Japanese Buddhist, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Komazawa University, Bodh Gaya, Mizuno Jorin, Second Rank, Zen Buddhist, Yamaguchi Kokan, Aichi Senmon Nisódó, Kato Shinjo, Japanese Zen, Kojima Kendo, Sato Zen, Shukke Kudoku, Tanaka Dorin, Third Rank, Ando Dokai, Aoyama Sensei, Great Preceptor, Koniazawa University, Ministry of Education, Solo Zen New!
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- Religion in Japanese History (Lectures on the History of Religions New Series) by Joseph M. Kitagawa on 4 pages
- Religion in Contemporary Japan by Ian Reader on 4 pages
- Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture (Studies in the modernization of Japan) by Donald H. Shively on 4 pages
- Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History by John Hall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender by Jose Ignacio Cabezon in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women -- Tradition, Revision, Renewal by Ellison Banks Findly on page 129, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) by Karma Lekshe Tsomo on page 3, and Back Matter
- The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender (Buddhisms) by Bernard Faure in Back Matter
- Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas by Kim Gutschow in Back Matter
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