Women under the Bō tree: Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka
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 clois...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1994.
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| In: | Year: 1994 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Bartholomeusz, Tessa, Women under the Bo Tree] (1999) (Peach, Lucinda Joy)
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| Series/Journal: | Cambridge studies in religious traditions
5 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sri Lanka
/ Bhikkuni
/ Geschichte Anfänge-1990
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| Further subjects: | B
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women (Sri Lanka)
B Buddhist Nuns Sri Lanka B Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women ; Sri Lanka B Buddhist nuns ; Sri Lanka B Buddhist Nuns (Sri Lanka) B Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women Sri Lanka |
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Print version: 9780521461290 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511896026 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511896026 |