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Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns

Arai, Paula Kane Robinson

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Religion General BuddhismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0199928681
ISBN13: 9780199928682
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 1 2012
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to the present day. Drawing on her fieldwork among the Soto nuns, Arai demonstrates that the lives of many of these women embody classical Buddhist ideals. They have chosen to lead a strictly disciplined monastic life over against successful careers and the unconstrained contemporary secular lifestyle. In this, and other respects, they can be shown to stand in stark contrast to their male counterparts.

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