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Toward Buddhist Womanism: Tonglen Practice in the Color Purple |
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Huang, Zhi (著)
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| Source |
Religions
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| Volume | v.13 n.7 |
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| Date | 2022.07 |
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| Pages | 11 |
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| Publisher | MDIP |
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https://www.mdpi.com/
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| Location | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | 1. Author Affiliation: Soochow University.
2. Religions 2022, 13(7), 660. |
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| Keyword | The Color Purple; tonglen; Buddhist womanism; bodhicitta |
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| Abstract | Tonglen is a Tibetan Buddhist practice that aims at developing the practitioner’s bodhicitta. In this article, I argue that it not only finds expression in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple through the protagonist Celie, but adds more complexity to the womanist philosophy for which Walker has been ensconced in positions of influence. More specifically, Celie follows an implied Buddhist practice of tonglen; in the process of “taking in and sending out”, her bodhicitta has been generated and cultivated. Underlying her tonglen practice is Buddhist womanism demonstrating how African American women can survive the social oppression and injustice by way of acknowledging their own terrible afflictions, empathizing with those enduring intense suffering, male and female, extending their loving kindness, comprehending the absence of intrinsic entity and the principle of dependent origination, etc. In addition, the article suggests that the fight for the survival of the oppressed is a type of Buddhist practice in Walker’s Buddhist womanism. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 1
Keywords 1
1. Introduction 1
2. “Taking In and Sending Out” 3
3. Generating Bodhicitta 6
4. Conclusions
References 10
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| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.3390/rel13070660 |
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| Hits | 58 |
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| Created date | 2023.09.26 |
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| Modified date | 2023.09.26 |
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