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Women under the bo tree examines the tradition of female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka. The study is textual, historical, and anthropological, and links ancient tradition with contemporary practice. Tessa Bartholomeusz utilizes data based on her field experiences in many contemporary cloisters: the history of the re-emergence of Buddhist female renouncers in the late nineteenth century after a hiatus of several hundred years; the reasons why women renounce; the variety of expressions of female world-renunciation; and, above all, attitudes about women and monasticism that have either prohibited women from renouncing or have encouraged them to do so. One of the most striking discoveries of the study is that the fortunes of Buddhist female renouncers is tied to the fortunes of Buddhism in Sri Lanka more generally, and to perceived notions of Sri Lanka as the caretaker of Buddhism.
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- Title Women Under the Bo Tree
- Author Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 308
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
- Date 1994-09-30
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780521461290 / 0521461294
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.28 x 0.96 in (23.55 x 15.95 x 2.44 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Library of Congress subjects Buddhist nuns - Sri Lanka, Buddhist monasticism and religious orders
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93033586
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.365
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