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(NEW)1. Out of the Shadows: Socially Engaged Buddhist Women/ Karma Lekshe
Tsomo (ed.)
Price US$ 37 Outside India
ISBN: 9788170308492
Since the time of the Buddha, women have played significant roles in
Buddhist societies, but until recently their contributors have often gone
unrecognized. In the past two decades, the landscape has shifted
dramatically. Buddhist women have come out of the shadows and begun to take
active roles, both in the spheres of religion and social transformation. The
1st Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women held in 1987 in
Bodhgaya, India, gave rise to a revolutionary new awareness among Buddhist
women that has led to major changes throughout the Buddhist world. Out of
the Shadows: Socially Engaged Buddhist Women is a collection on essays that
sheds light on Buddhist womens vast achievements. These essays recount
womens Struggles against tremendous odds, their earnest spiritual practice,
and their diligent efforts to relieve the suffering of the world. Beginning
with the story of the Buddhas wife and spanning more than two thousand years
of history, the essays illuminate the lives of Buddhist laywomen and nuns,
from a diversity of cultures throughout Asia and beyond. The richness and
variety of their struggles and accomplishments are a valuable chapter in
womens history and an inspiring legacy.
Karma Lekshe Tsomo is Instructor of Buddhism at Chaminade Universisty and
Degree Fellow at the East-West Center. She has written several books
including Sutras in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist Manastic Ethics for
Women, also published by Suny Press, and most recently, Living and Dying in
Buddhist Culture (with David W. Chappell).
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(NEW)2. Songs and Lives of the Jomo (nuns) of Kinnaur, Northwest India
Women's Religious Expression in Tibetan Buddhism/ By Linda LaMacchia
Price US $ 37 Outside India
ISBN: 81-7030-901-8
Jomos are nuns, celibate women devoted to the practice of Buddhism. This
book tells the story of Kinnauri jomos in their own voices through their two
songs genres.The book has 23 songs and 7 life stories.
Linda LaMacchia is an adjunct Assistant Professor in Humanities at the
University of Maryland, Univercity College in Adelphi, MD, USA, and holds a
Ph. D in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
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Other Titles
1. After Patriarchy- Feminist Transformation of the World Religion/ Paula M.
Cooey,William R. Eakrin & John B. McDaniel , **
ISBN: 81-7030-508-X, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No.202
Contents:
Introduction- Paula M. Cooey, William R. Eakin, Jay B. McDaniel; 1. Black
Women's surrogacy experience and the Christian notions of redemption-
Delores S. Williams; 2. Kali The Savior- Lina Gupta; 3. Muslim Women and
post- patriarchal Islam- Riffat Hassan; 4. Buddhism after Patriarchy- Rita
M. Gross; 5. Transforming the Nature of Community- Towards a Feminist People
of Israel- Judith Plaskow; 6. The Redemption of the body- Post- Patriarchal
reconstruction of inherited Christian Doctrine- Paula M. Cooey; 7. Images of
the Feminine in Apache Religious Tradition- Ines Talamantez; 8. The
Spiritual, Political journey of a Feminist Freethinker- Emily Culpepper;
Contributors.
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2. Buddhism after Patriarchy- A Feminist History, Analysis and
Reconstruction of Buddhism/ Rita M. Gross, **
ISBN: 81-7030-422-9, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 148
About the Author
Rita M. Gross is Professor of Comparative Studies in Religion at the
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. A former president of the Society for
Buddhist-Christian Studies, she is the editor of Beyond Androcentrism; New
Essays on Women and Religion, and with Nancy Falk, of Unspoken Worlds: Women's
Religious Lives. She is also the author of numerous articles and essays on
women and religion.
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3. Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender/ Jose Ignacio Cabezon, **
ISBN: 81-7030-342-7, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 113
About the Book
This book explores historical, textual, and social questions relating to the
position and experience of women and gay people in the Buddhist world from
India and Tibet to Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. It focuses on four key
areas: Buddhist history, contemporary culture, Buddhist symbols, and
homosexuality, and it covers Buddhism's entire history, from its origins to
the present day. The result of original and innovative research, the author
offers new perspectives on the history of the attitudes toward, and of the
self-perception of women in both ancient and modern Buddhist societies. He
explores key social issues such as abortion, he examines the use of rhetoric
and symbols in Buddhist texts, and cultures, and he discusses the neglected
subject to Buddhism and homosexuality.
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4. Buddhist Women Across Culture- Realization/ Ed. Karma Leshke Tsome, **
ISBN: 81-7030-660-4, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 203
About the Author
Karma Lekshe Tsomo (ed.) is Instructor of Buddhism at Chaminade
Universisty and Degree Fellow at the East-West Center. She has written
several books including Sutras in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist
Manastic Ethics for Women, also published by Suny Press, and most recently,
Living and Dying in Buddhist Culture (with David W. Chappell).
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5. Devi Gita : The Song of the Goddess : A Translation, Annotation and
Commentary/ C. Mackenzi Brown, **
ISBN: 81-7030-634-5, Series: Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series No. 249
About the Book
This book provides a translation, with introduction, Commentary, and
annotation, of the medieval Hindu Sanskrit text the Devi Gita (Song of the
Goddess). It is an important but not well-known text from the rich Sakta
(Goddess) tradition of India. The Devi Gita was composed around the
fifteenth century C.E., in partial initiation of the famous Bhagavad Gita
(Song of the Lord), composed some fifteen centuries earlier. Around the
sixth century C.E., following the rises of several male deities to
prominence, a new theistic movement began in which the supreme being was
envisioned as female, known as the Great Goddess (Maha-Devi). Appearing
first as a violent and blood-loving deity, this Goddess gradually evolved
into a more benign figure, a compassionate World-Mother and bestower of
salvific wisdom. It is in this beneficent mode that the Goddess appears in
the Devi Gita. This work makes available an up-to-date translation of the
Devi Gita, along with a historical and theological analysis of the text. The
book is divided into sections of verses, and each section is followed by a
comment explaining key terms, concepts, ritual procedures, and mythic
themes. The comments also offer comparisons with related schools of thought,
indicate parallel texts and textual sources of verses in the Devi Gita, and
briefly elucidate the historical and religious background, supplementing the
remarks of the introduction.
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6. Feminine Multiplicity- A Study of Groups Multiple Goddesses in India/
Yoshinori Onishi, US$ 16
ISBN: 81-7030-513-6, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No.207
About the Book
The aim of this study is to examine into the meanings and significance of
the multiplicity of the feminine in Indian subcontinent as exemplified by
the 'Saptamatrkas', The 'nine Durgas the 'letters of the Sanskrit alphabet
(matrkas, "little mothers" and so on. The author refer to female deities
that seem to function almost always as a group. It is as a group that these
deities are considered significant and expounded in the texts.
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7. Lives of the Nuns- Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the
Fourth to Sixth Centuries/ Trans. Kathryn Ann Tsai, **
ISBN: 81-7030-465-2, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 162
About the Book
A millennium and a half ago some remarkable women cast aside the concerns of
the world to devote their lives to Buddhism. Lives of the Nuns, a
translation of the Pi-ch'iu-ni chuan, was compiled by Shih Pao-ch'and in or
about A.D. 516 and covers exactly that period when Buddhist monasticism for
women was first being established in china. Originally written to
demonstrate the efficacy of Buddhist scripture in the lives of female
monastic, the sixty-five biographies are now regarded as the best source of
information about women's participation in Buddhist monastic practice in
premodern Chine. Among the stories of the Buddhist life well lived are
entertaining tales that reveal the wit and intelligence of these women in
the face of unsavory officials, highway robbers, even fawning barbarians.
When Ching-ch'eng and a fellow nun, renowned for their piety and strict
asceticism, are taken to "the capital of the northern barbarians" and piled
with delicacies, the women "besmirch their own reputation" by gobbling down
the food shamelessly. Appalled by their lack of manners, the disillusioned
barbarians release the nuns, who return happily to their convent. Lives of
the Nuns gives readers a glimpse into a world long vanished yet peopled with
women and men who express the same aspirations and longing for spiritual
enlightenment found at all times and in all places. Buddhologists,
sinologists, historians, and those interested in religious studies and women's
studies will welcome this volume, which includes annotations for readers new
to the field of Chinese Buddhist history as well as for the specialist.
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8. Other Revolution: NGO and Feminist Perspectives from South Asia/ Ed.
Renuka Sharma, Purushotam Bilimoria, US$ 33
ISBN: 81-7030-629-9
About the Book
Reflections on presentations, reports and debates from the Beijing Women's
Conference in 1995 and Interdisciplinary Women's Conference in Australia in
1996; contributed articles.
Contents: Editorial Introduction, Section I: Historical Issues in the
Construction of Gender and Identity, Section II. Gender, Development Ethics
and the Environment, Section III. Current Concerns, Reviews and Reports.
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9. Religion and Women/ Arvind Sharma, **
ISBN: 81-7030-564-0, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 235
About the Author
Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty
of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Formerly of
the I.A.S., he also holds an M.A. in Economics from Syracuse University, a
Masters in Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D.
in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University. He is currently
engaged in promoting the adoption of A Universal Declaration of Human Right
by the World's Religions. His many books include Classical Hindu Thought
(OUP, 2000), Hinduism for our Times (OUP, 1995), The Philosophy of Religion:
A Buddhist Perspective (OUP, 1995)
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10. Representations of Gender, Democracy and Identity Politics in Relation
to South Asia/ Ed. Renuka Sharma, US$ 36
ISBN: 81-7030-503-9, Series: Narri Series on Women Studies No. 2
About the Book
The essays collected here represent a variety of contemporary writings about
gender, culture and society in South Asia, pertinent in the present context
of a growing sectarian fundamentalism. The writers are all participants in
debates about feminist epistemology ; the growing grassroots democratic
movements; the challenges and pitfalls of globalization women's intellectual
property rights as well as the articulation of alternative strategies for
current legal and social problems. The works included in this volume allow
for a number of different themes, viewpoints, methodologies to emerge. The
book is divided into five sections namely -Theory , Praxis and History ;
Thematic issues with relation to Religion, Law, Secularism, and the
Placement of women in Trade Unions and. in Organisations Regional
Representations; Self Representations and Identity Politics Postscript. The
Contributors to the volume are Flavia Agnes, Sara Ahmed, Barbara Watson
Andaya, Videsha Bagchi, -Aparna Basu, Gillian Castellino, Shivani Banerjee
Chakravorty, Vinitha Jayasinghe, Bernadette Joseph, Nalini Kasynathan, Ratna
Kapur, Lashvinder Kaur, Madhu Kishwar, HeleDc Lay, Gitiara Nasreen, Indira
J. Parikh, Santi Rozario, Seemanthini Niranjana, Tanika Sarkar, Nayanil.
Shah, Renuka Sharma, Olga Valladares, Fareeha Zafar .
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11. Rise of the Goddesses in the Hindu Tradition/ Tracy Pintchman, **
ISBN: 81-7030-521-7, Series: Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series No.210
About the Book
This book explores the rise of the Great Goddessby focusing on the
development of sakti (creative energy), maya (objective illusion), and
prakrti (materiality) from Vedic times to the late Puranic period,
clarifying how these principles became central to her theology.
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12. Sakyadhita : Daughters of the Buddha/ Ed. Karma Lekshe Tsomo, **
ISBN: 81-7030-592-6, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No.192
About the Book
Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha is the result of the first International
Conference of Buddhist nuns. At this gathering women Buddhist renunciates
from east and west talked candidly about their lives -- their joys, their
problems and their future as Buddhist nuns in the modern world. This book
aims at linking and encouraging women on the spiritual path through the
ideas and experience of Buddhist women practitioners from various countries
and traditions. It investigates how women can avoid personal exploitation
and maximize their potentialities for enlightenment, as well as how to
effectively help institute full bhiksuni ordination worldwide and contribute
to redressing the gender imbalance as a major step toward planetary
well-being.
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13. Sisters in Solitude- Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for
Women- A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Dharmagupta and the Tibetan
Mulasarvastivada Bhiksuni Pratimoksa Sutras/ Karma Leshke Tsomo, **
ISBN: 81-7030-541-1, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No.181
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14. Today's Women in World Religions/ Ed. Arvind Sharma, Introduction by
Katherine K.Young, **
ISBN: 81-7030-566-7, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 237
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15. Unknown Pilgrims: History, Life and Spirituality of the Jaina Women
Ascetics/ N. Shanta, US$ 50
ISBN: 81-7030-535-7, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No.219
About the Book
This book permits us to penetrate within one of the most ancient ascetic
spirituality, that followed by some 6000 Jaina women ascetics. Written with
their collaboration, it presents to the reader their life of radical
renunciation of which one of the hallmarks is incessant pilgrimage, a
regular shifting from one place to the next in a sustained striving towards
self-purification, a striving of which the final goal is Nirvana. Here then
we have before us the whole Jaina tradition, presented through scriptures,
ancient texts, biographies, epigraphy and iconography. Here too we may
observe its outworking in contemporary daily life and its contribution to
inter-cultural and inter-monastic encounter. Furthermore, it is not without
interest that this study finds its own proper place in an age which is
rediscovering feminine values. At a time when so many people are taking a
deep interest in Asian spiritualities we find here an original and strictly
defined spiritual path and also a spiritual teaching whose strength and
subtlety merit our attention and invites us to embark on an authentic
spiritual journey.
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16. Women in India/ Mary Francis Billington, US$ 26
ISBN: 81-7030-92-4
About the Book
India in many respects has been written upon exahaustively yet on the
other hand, it is so vast an area; its problems are of such supreme imperial
moment, and it population presents such wide racial variations, that it
seems well nigh impossible for the final word to be said concerning its. Of
its women especially, their inner life and thought, only the most
superficial knowledge exist. The present book is a study of women in India.
The book is divided into 14 chapters. The chapters are - Her birth and
infancy, her education, her marriage, medical aid and assistance for the
sick, widow- remarriage, and divorse, female life in field and factory,
dress, embroidery and needlecraft, jewellery and ornament, amusements and
plesure, female crimes and criminals, death and funeral customes, Anglo
India society and notes on travelling and outfit. This book is a pioneer
book in the woman studies in general and Indian women in particular.
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17. Women in World Religion/ Arvind Sharma, US$ 22
ISBN: 81-7030-428-8 , Series: Narri Series on Women Studies No. 1
About the Author
Arvind Sharma (ed.)
Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty
of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Formerly of
the I.A.S., he also holds an M.A. in Economics from Syracuse University, a
Masters in Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D.
in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University. He is currently
engaged in promoting the adoption of A Universal Declaration of Human Right
by the World's Religions. His many books include Classical Hindu Thought
(OUP, 2000), Hinduism for our Times (OUP, 1995), The Philosophy of Religion:
A Buddhist Perspective (OUP, 1995).
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