Women Under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri LankaWomen under the Bo Tree examines the tradition of female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka. The study is textual, historical and anthropological, and links ancient tradition with contemporary practice. Tessa Bartholomeusz utilizes data based on her field experiences in many contemporary cloisters of Sri Lanka, and on original archival research. She explores the history of the re-emergence of Buddhist female renouncers in the late nineteenth century after a hiatus of several hundred years; the reasons why women renounce; the variety of expressions of female world-renunciation; and, above all, attitudes about women and monasticism that have either prohibited women from renouncing or have encouraged them to do so. One of the most striking discoveries of the study is that the fortunes of Buddhist female renouncers is tied to the fortunes of Buddhism in Sri Lanka more generally, and to perceived notions of Sri Lanka as the caretaker of Buddhism. |
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Table des matières
| 3 | |
the early twentieth | 91 |
Appendices | 95 |
The lay nun in transitional Ceylon | 109 |
The dasa sil mala in contemporary Sri Lanka | 130 |
Novitiates western lay nuns and cave dwellers | 156 |
trends | 181 |
Motes | 202 |
Select bibliographies | 263 |
Index and glossary | 278 |
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Women Under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka Tessa J. Bartholomeusz Aucun aperçu disponible - 1994 |
Women under the Bo Tree: Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka Tessa J. Bartholomeusz Aucun aperçu disponible - 2008 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
According alms ancient Anuradhapura aramaya argued Ayya Khema became become bhikkhuni bhikkhus Bo tree Buddha Buddhist revival Buddhist women Burma Burmese Canavarro century ceremony Ceylon Ceylonese chapter Colombo contemporary Sri Countess danaya dasa sil Dharmapala's diary entry Dhlra donned the ochre dukkha eight precepts elite established female renunciation five precepts Gombrich Hewavitarane Ibid island Kandy Kataragama Kotmalee DhTra Sudharma Kotmalee Sudharma Lady Blake's laity laywomen lineage living LllawatI Madivala Mahavamsa meditation monastic order monks mother nibbana novice nuns I interviewed nuns in Sri ochre robe order of monks order of nuns ordination Pali pious pujas re-establish religion religious renounce the world renunciant's resident role rural Samitiya sangha Sanghamitta Upasikaramaya Shearer sil mala Sinhala lay nuns Sister Uppalavanna Society Sri Lanka status SudharmacarT Sumetta ten precepts Theravada Theravadin tradition of female Upasika Uppalavanna Uttara Maniyo Venerable Vihara Maha Devi Vinaya VMD committee vocation western lay nuns woman world-renunciation
Fréquemment cités
Page 244 - Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988); Deborah Sawyer, Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries (London: Routledge, 1996).
Page 29 - Boodhoo professed by the Chiefs and inhabitants of these Provinces is declared inviolable, and its Rites, Ministers and Places of worship are to be maintained and protected.
Page 83 - Go ye now, O bhikkhus, for the benefit of the many, for the welfare of mankind, out of compassion for the world. Preach the doctrine which is glorious in the beginning, glorious in the middle, and glorious in the end, in the spirit as well as in the letter. There are beings whose eyes are scarcely covered with dust, but if the doctrine is not preached to them they cannot attain salvation. Proclaim to them a life of holiness. They will understand the doctrine and accept it.
Page 83 - Go ye now, O Bhikkhus, and wander, for the gain of the many, for the welfare of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the good, for the gain, and for the welfare of gods and men, Let not two of you go the same way , Preach...
Page 4 - Monks, a woman, even when going along, will stop to ensnare the heart of a man; whether standing, sitting or lying down, laughing, talking or singing, weeping, stricken or dying, a woman will stop to ensnare the heart of a man...
Page 87 - Having put on the yellow robes, he returns to the side of his tutor, and says,] Grant me leave to speak. I make obeisance to my lord. Lord, forgive me all my faults. Let the merit that I have gained be shared by my lord. It is fitting to give me to share in the merit gained by my lord. It is good, it is good. I share in it.
Page 257 - Gananath Obeyesekere, Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), pp.
Page 224 - ... (8) the number of sheets, leaves or pages: (9) the size: (10) the first, second or other number of the edition: (11) the number of copies of which the edition consists: (12) whether the book is printed or lithographed: (13) the price at which the book is sold to the public: and (14) the name and residence of the proprietor of the copyright or of any portion of such copyright.
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Women Under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka Numéro 5 de Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions Volume 5 de Cambridge Studies in Religious |
| Auteur | Tessa J. Bartholomeusz |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0521461294, 9780521461290 |
| Longueur | 284 pages |
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