Himalayan hermitess the life of a Tibetan Buddhist nun
The Life of Orgyan Chokyi is the oldest known autobiography authored by a Tibetan woman, and thus holds a critical place in both Tibetan and Buddhist literature. In it she tells of the sufferings of her youth, the struggle to escape menial labor and become a hermitess, her dreams and visionary exper...
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2004
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020 | |a 9780195152999 | ||
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082 | |b K521 | ||
100 | |a Schaeffer, Kurtis R. | ||
245 | 0 | |a Himalayan hermitess | |
245 | 4 | |b the life of a Tibetan Buddhist nun | |
245 | 0 | |c Kurtis R. Schaeffer | |
260 | |a New York | ||
260 | |b Oxford University Press | ||
260 | |c 2004 | ||
300 | |a viii, 220 p. | ||
300 | |c 25 cm | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index | ||
520 | |a The Life of Orgyan Chokyi is the oldest known autobiography authored by a Tibetan woman, and thus holds a critical place in both Tibetan and Buddhist literature. In it she tells of the sufferings of her youth, the struggle to escape menial labor and become a hermitess, her dreams and visionary experiences, her relationships with other nuns, the painstaking work of contemplative practice, and her hard-won social autonomy and high-mountain solitude. In process it develops a compelling vision of the relation between gender, the body, and suffering from a female Buddhist practitioner's perspective | ||
650 | |a Buddhist nuns; Tibet Autonomous Region (China); Orgyan Chokyi | ||
700 | |a Kurtis R. Schaeffer | ||
980 | |a Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |