Transcending Gender: Female Non-Buddhists' Experiences of the Vipassanā Meditation Retreat
Female non-Buddhists have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreats since the 1960s. These memoirists relate to the English-speaking world their experience of the retreat process and self-transformations. Early memoirists traveled Asia in order...
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Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-10 |
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