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The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege

Alison Melnick Dyer

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Description:"Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindr�oling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldr�on (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 Gyurm�e �Osel, 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 Peldr�on'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"--We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege. To get started finding The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindr�oling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldr�on (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 Gyurm�e �Osel, 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 Peldr�on'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"--We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege. To get started finding The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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