Search Results for: Women And Monastic Buddhism In Early South Asia

This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss

For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious f

This volume is a broad-ranging comparative study with translations of texts, sections of texts and textual fragments that are concerned with women in early Indi

"In this book Seeger lays out the nuances and varying conceptions of female renunciation in modern Thai Buddhism. Centered on long-term textual and ethnographic

An Ancient Collection Reimagined Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhi