Tessa Bartholomeusz explores the relationship between female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka and attitudes about women and the religious vocation. She gives a history of Buddhist female renouncers in Sri Lanka and recounts her own field experiences of contemporary Buddhist women who have chosen to live celibate and cloistered lives. By presenting the point of view of the women themselves and describing their role and vocation in present-day Sri Lanka, the author puts a new perspective on the island's Buddhist culture.
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"This book represents a significant and welcome departure from most studies of "women in Buddhism"....[It] is an excellent resource for scholars and students and is a `must read' for anyone working on topics concerning Buddhist nuns, Sri Lankan history or ethnography, or Buddhism today." Journal of Buddhist Ethics
"...a solid and important contribution to the study of Buddhism in Sri Lanka since 1890. As one of the first book-length studies of renunciant women in a modern Buddhist society, it sets a good example in its judicious empathy and in its thorough social and historical contextualizing of its subject." The Journal of Asian Studies
"Women under the Bo Tree is a fascinating account of the life of an unusual institution, the history of which sheds a great deal of light on the position of women in contemporary Theravada Buddhist cultures. By perusing the historical record and recovering the voices of nineteenth and twentieth-century lay nuns, their supporters, and their critics, and also by interviewing contemporary lay nuns, Bartholomeusz provides us with an insightful account of this self-declared monastic community." Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"...a solid and important contribution to the study of Buddhism in Sri Lanka since 1890. As one of the first book-length studies of renunciant women in a modern Buddhist society, it sets a good example in its judicious empathy and in its thorough social and historical contextualizing of its subject." The Journal of Asian Studies
"Women under the Bo Tree is a fascinating account of the life of an unusual institution, the history of which sheds a great deal of light on the position of women in contemporary Theravada Buddhist cultures. By perusing the historical record and recovering the voices of nineteenth and twentieth-century lay nuns, their supporters, and their critics, and also by interviewing contemporary lay nuns, Bartholomeusz provides us with an insightful account of this self-declared monastic community." Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Tessa Bartholomeusz explores the relationship between female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka and attitudes about women and the religious vocation more generally. A lively history of Buddhist female renouncers on the island is combined with insights derived from the experiences of modern Buddhist women.
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This is a book about Buddhist women in Sri Lanka who have "renounced the world," or exchanged their lay identity for monastic life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lay nunnery, lay nuns, sil mata, lay nunneries, female renunciation, sil mdtd, female renunciants, bhikkhunf order, changing formal status, sil mala, bhikkhuni order, soteriological inclusiveness, chant pirit, ascetic misogyny, pious laywoman, dasa sil, ten precepts, lay identity, clerical name, pious laywomen, primary research site, officiating monk, ochre robe, ordination lineage, ancient nun Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Lady Blake, Theosophical Society, Protestant Buddhism, Ceylon Buddhists, Protestant Buddhist, United States, Gunter House, Sri Nissanka, Los Angeles, Sinhala Buddhist, Brahma Kumaris, Cinnamon Gardens, Countess Canavarro, Ministry of Buddhist Affairs, Miss Shearer, Temple of the Tooth, Theravada Buddhism, Baron Jayatilake, Ceylonese Buddhism, Kotmalee Mira, President Premadasa, Bodhi Society, Ceylonese Buddhist, Chief Updsikd New!
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This is a book about Buddhist women in Sri Lanka who have "renounced the world," or exchanged their lay identity for monastic life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lay nunnery, lay nuns, sil mata, lay nunneries, female renunciation, sil mdtd, female renunciants, bhikkhunf order, changing formal status, sil mala, bhikkhuni order, soteriological inclusiveness, chant pirit, ascetic misogyny, pious laywoman, dasa sil, ten precepts, lay identity, clerical name, pious laywomen, primary research site, officiating monk, ochre robe, ordination lineage, ancient nun Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Lady Blake, Theosophical Society, Protestant Buddhism, Ceylon Buddhists, Protestant Buddhist, United States, Gunter House, Sri Nissanka, Los Angeles, Sinhala Buddhist, Brahma Kumaris, Cinnamon Gardens, Countess Canavarro, Ministry of Buddhist Affairs, Miss Shearer, Temple of the Tooth, Theravada Buddhism, Baron Jayatilake, Ceylonese Buddhism, Kotmalee Mira, President Premadasa, Bodhi Society, Ceylonese Buddhist, Chief Updsikd New!
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- Buddhism Transformed by Richard Gombrich on 13 pages
- Sri Lanka (Population profiles) by Lakshmi Perera on 7 pages
- Vinaya Texts: v. 13, 17 & 20 by F. Max-Muller on 7 pages
- The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka: Religious Tradition, Re-interpretation and Responses by George D. Bond on 6 pages
- Women Under Primitive Buddhism (RAP) by I. B. Horner on 4 pages
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- The Foundations of Buddhism (Opus) by Rupert Gethin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Life of Buddhism (The Life of Religion) by Frank E. Reynolds in Back Matter
- The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent by Thomas A. Tweed in Front Matter
- American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship by Christopher Queen in Back Matter
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