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Soaring and settling : Buddhist perspectives on contemporary social and religious issues
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- Creator
- Rita M. Gross
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Continuum, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 238 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826411136, 0826411134
- OCLC
- ocm39523166
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.
- Overview: Buddhist Practice, Feminism, and Social Concern -- Pt. 1. The Road Less Chosen: Becoming a Feminist Buddhist Scholar-Practitioner -- Introduction: Autobiography and Feminist Method. 1. The Female Body and Precious Human Birth: An Essay on Anger and Meditation. 2. Crying in the Prophetic Voice as a Buddhist Feminist. 3. Why Me? Reflections of a Wisconsin Farm Girl Who Became a Buddhist Theologian When She Grew Up. 4. Passion and Peril: Transgressing Boundaries as a Feminist Buddhist Scholar-Practitioner -- Pt. 2. Soaring and Settling Buddhism Engaged in Contemporary Social Issues -- Introduction: Meditation, Impermanence, and Social Change. 5. Soaring and Settling: Riding the Winds of Change. 6. Helping the Iron Bird Fly: Western Buddhists and Issues of Authority. 7. Interdependence and Detachment: Toward a Buddhist Environmental Ethic. 8. Finding Renunciation and Balance in Western Buddhist Practice: Work, Family, Community, and Friendship. 9. Buddhist Values for Overcoming Pro-natalism and Consumerism. 10. Children, Children's Rights, and Family Well-being in Buddhist Perspective. 11. Impermanence, Nowness, and Non-judgment: Appreciating Finitude and Death -- Pt. 3. Buddhist Perspectives in Feminist Theology -- Introduction: What Is Buddhist Theology? 12. Immanence and Transcendence in Women's Religious Experience and Expression: A Nontheistic Perspective. 13. Some Buddhist Perspectives on the Goddess. 14. The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism: Reflections of a Buddhist Feminist. 15. "I Will Never Forget to Visualize That Vajrayogini Is My Body and Mind" 16. Life-giving Images in Vajrayana Buddhist Ritual