Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream

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INNOVATIVE BUDDHIST WOMEN
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Glossary
Introduction
PART I THE WORLD OF BUDDHIST WOMEN
	BUDDHIST WOMEN OF SOUTH ASIA
		Chapter 1 Inaccuracies in Buddhist Women's History
		Chapter 2 At the Cutting Edge: Therāvada Nuns in the Kathmandu Valley
		Chapter 3 Unity and Diversity Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka
		Chapter 4 Factions and Fortitude: Buddhist Women in Bangladesh
	BUDDHIST WOMEN OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
		Chapter 5 Thammacarini Witthaya: The First Buddhist School for Girls in Thailand
		Chapter 6 The Status and Values of the Santi Asoke Sikkhamat
		Chapter 7 Rediscovering Cambodian Buddhist Women of the Past
		Chapter 8 The Revival of the Don Chee Movement in Cambodia
		Chapter 9 Khmer Women: Buddhist Survivors
		Chapter 10 Dam Luu: An Eminent Vietnamese Buddhist Nun
	BUDDHIST WOMEN OF EAST ASIA
		Chapter 11 A Case of Ritual Zen: In Gratitude to  Ānanda
		Chapter 12 Tiexiangsi: A Gelugpa Nunnery in Contemporary China
		Chapter 13 Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Shim Ch'ông: Mistress of the Spiritual Domain
		Chapter 14 Lineage or Family Tree? The Implications for Gender
		Chapter 15 Ordination, Legitimacy, and Sisterhood: The International Full Ordination Ceremony in Bodhgaya
	BUDDHIST WOMEN IN THE HIMALAYAS
		Chapter 16 Of Birds and Wings: Tibetan Nuns and their Encounters with Knowledge
		Chapter 17 Yeshe's Tibetan Pilgrimage and the Founding of a Himalayan Nunnery
		Chapter 18 Born Buddhist is Not Enough
	BUDDHIST WOMEN IN HAWAI'I
		Chapter 19 Mary Foster: The First Hawaiian Buddhist
		Chapter 20 Bishop Jikyu Rose: A Tendai Ajari in Hawai'i
PART II WOMEN IN COMPASSIONATE SOCIAL ACTION
	Chapter 21 Buddhism and the Media
	Chapter 22 Diversity as Practice: Thinking about Race and "American" Buddhism
	Chapter 23 Sexual Conduct and Misconduct: Buddhist Ethics in the West
	Chapter 24 Daylighting the Feminine in American Buddhism
	Chapter 25 Buddhism, Human Rights, Women's Rights, and Democracy
	Chapter 26 Engaged Buddhism: "Moving" and Recreating Women's Stories
	Chapter 27 Inner Transformation for World Peace
Epilogue Transforming Women's Position in Buddhism: Strategies
Bibliography
Index