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A new Zen for women / Perle Besserman
Bib ID 3987479
Format BookBook
Author
Besserman, Perle
 
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Description New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007 
232 p. ; 22 cm. 
ISBN 9781403972149 (alk. paper)  1403972141 (alk. paper) 
Summary

"Perle Besserman's adventures in a Japanese Zen monastery provide the groundwork for this narrative of a woman's life in Zen. Storytelling across the centuries with wandering nuns in India, China, and Japan, and engaging in dialogues with feminist radicals, rebels, and reformers in the West, Besserman enriches our understanding of women's roles in Zen. Exploring the significance of Zen Buddhism and meditation throughout history, she dispels the notion that women were absent from its founding and sustenance. She shows how women continue to transform traditional Zen in new and creative ways, integrating the practice of meditation into their lives. Insightful and entertaining, A New Zen for Women offers a fresh look at religion and women, as Besserman reclaims a legacy of female deities and teachers across the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • 1. Dragged around by Zen
  • 2. Greenhouse person
  • 3. Expect nothing
  • 4. A monk at last!
  • 5. "How can a woman ever do what a man does?"
  • 6. Zen is for funerals
  • 7. That extra jaw muscle
  • 8. "American layman Zen"
  • 9. Zen women
  • 10. Getting personal
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Besserman, Perle.  |  Religious life - Zen Buddhism.  |  Buddhist women - Religious life.

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