CONTENTS:-
I. BUDDHIST Women IN ASIAN Traditions: South ASIAN TRADITIONS:
1. The Female in Buddhism/Elizabeth J. Harris
2. Buddhist Women in India and Precolonial Sri Lanka/Lorna Dewaraja
3. Restoring the Order of Nuns to the Theravadin Tradition/Senarat Wijayasundara. East Asian Traditions:
4. The Red Cord Untied: Buddhist Nuns in Eighteenth-Century China/Beata Grant
5. Japanese Buddhist Nuns: Innovators for the Sake of Tradition/Paula K.R. Arai
6. Can Women Achieve Enlightenment? A Critique of Sexual Transformation for Enlightenment/Hae-ju Sunim (Ho-Ryeon Jeon). The Tibetan Tradition
7. Tibetan Buddhist Women Practitioners, Past and Present: a Garland to Delight those Wishing Inspiration/Janice D. Willis
8. Pregnancy and Childbirth in Tibetan Culture/Sarah Pinto
9. Change in Consciousness: Women's Religious Identity in Himalayan Buddhist Cultures/Karma Lekshe Tsomo
II. CONTEMPORARY BUDDHIST WOMEN: FORGING IDENTITY:
10. Conception and the Entry of Consciousness: When Does a Life Begin?/Cait Collins
11. East, West, Women, and Self/Anne C. Klein
12. Appropriate Treasure? Reflections on Women, Buddhism, and Cross-Cultural Exchange/Sara Shneiderman. Shaping new Traditions: Unity and Diversity
13. Comparing Buddhist and Christian Women's Experiences/Karma Lekshe Tsomo
14. Aung San Suu Kyi: A Woman of Conscience in Burma/Theja Gunawardhana
15. A Model for Laywomen in Buddhism: the Western Buddhist Order/Dharmacharini Sanghadevi
16. Feminism, Lay Buddhism, and the Future of Buddhism/Rita M. Gross. Epilogue/Karma Lekshe Tsomo
List of Contributors
