The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön A Woman of Power and Privilege

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Tác giả: Alison Melnick Dyer

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0295750378

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Thông tin xuất bản: University of Washington Press 2022

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (300 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 377566

The amazing life of a historical woman who embodied Buddhist divinity Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurmé Ösel, to consider how privilege influences individual authority, how authoritative Buddhist women have negotiated their position in gendered contexts, and how the lives of historical Buddhist women are (and are not) memorialized by their communities. Mingyur Peldrön's story challenges the dominant paradigms of women in religious life and adds nuance to our ideas about the history of gendered engagement in religious institutions. Her example serves as a means for better understanding of how gender can be both masked and asserted in the search for authority-operations that have wider implications for religious and political developments in eighteenth-century Tibet. In its engagement with Tibetan history, this study also illuminates the relationships between the Geluk and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism from the eighteenth century, to the nonsectarian developments of the nineteenth century.
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