Rethinking Gender and Female Laity in Late Imperial Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Biographies

This paper explores how lay female believers are depicted in the Chinese monastic Pure Land Buddhist texts and how a particular late-imperial Chinese Buddhist biography collection betrayed the previously existing narrative of female laity. Moreover, I wish to show that there had existed a long-lasti...

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Main Author: Wang, Xing (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 9
Further subjects:B Pure Land Buddhism
B lay female
B Peng Shaosheng
B Yunqi Zhuhong
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