UID:
almafu_9960119140302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-89602-6
Serie:
Cambridge studies in religious traditions ; 5
Inhalt:
Women under the Bo Tree examines the tradition of female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka. The study is textual, historical and anthropological, and links ancient tradition with contemporary practice. Tessa Bartholomeusz utilizes data based on her field experiences in many contemporary cloisters of Sri Lanka, and on original archival research. She explores the history of the re-emergence of Buddhist female renouncers in the late nineteenth century after a hiatus of several hundred years; the reasons why women renounce; the variety of expressions of female world-renunciation; and, above all, attitudes about women and monasticism that have either prohibited women from renouncing or have encouraged them to do so. One of the most striking discoveries of the study is that the fortunes of Buddhist female renouncers is tied to the fortunes of Buddhism in Sri Lanka more generally, and to perceived notions of Sri Lanka as the caretaker of Buddhism.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on pronunciation -- Dramatis personae -- Part I -- Introduction: The tradition of Buddhist female renunciation in Sri Lanka -- The ancient order of nuns in Sri Lanka -- Nineteenth-century Ceylon: the emergence of the lay nun -- Theosophists, educators, and nuns -- The Saňghamittā Sisterhood -- Part II -- The institutionalization of tradition: the early twentieth century and the lay nun -- The lay nun in transitional Ceylon -- The dasa sil mātā in contemporary Sri Lanka -- Novitiates, western lay nuns, and cave dwellers -- The Sri Lankan Bhikkhuī Saňgha: trends and reflections -- Epilogue: Women under the Bō tree -- Appendices -- Notes -- Select bibliographies -- Index and glossary.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-07168-2
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-46129-4
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511896026
