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portada Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
1999
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
019512393x
ISBN13
9780195123937
Edition No.
1
Categories

Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns (in English)

Paula Kane Robinson Arai (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns (in English) - Paula Kane Robinson Arai

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Synopsis "Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns (in 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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