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Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia: Rediscovering the invisible believers

Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia: Rediscovering the invisible believers

Hardcover

Series: Archaeology and Religion in South Asia

BuddhismGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1138100013
ISBN13: 9781138100015
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Feb 17 2016
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. It discusses the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members and so on within Buddhism as well as individual experiences, and their equations with others and relationships at different levels.

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