On Reading Buddhist Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics, and Translating Women’s Bodies
Buddhist monastic law codes (vinaya) are rich sources for writing the history of the early nuns’ community. If we hope to encounter these ascetic women of long ago as full real people, however, we must apply an intentional, transparent, critically informed, and sometimes interstitial reading strateg...
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 88, Issue: 4, Pages: 1121-1153 |
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