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When the Buddha Was a Woman: Reimagining Tradition in the Theravāda |
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作者 |
Derris, Karen
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出處題名 |
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
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卷期 | v.24 n.2 fall |
出版日期 | 2008 |
頁次 | 29 - 44 |
出版者 | Indiana University Press |
出版者網址 |
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/
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出版地 | Indiana, US [印第安那州, 美國] |
資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
使用語言 | 英文=English |
摘要 | Buddhist women are reclaiming Buddhist textual traditions as one strategy for improving status and opportunities in their communities. In this article, Derris examines one popular narrative from the Theravādin medieval world almost entirely forgotten in present-day conversations about the representation of women in the Theravāda. This apocryphal jātaka tells the story of the only previous lifetime of the Buddha Gotama when he was reborn as a woman. The story makes the dramatic point that, in the past, Theravādin tradition acknowledged the possibility of female bodhisattas striving for buddhahood. The story is an example of a highly innovative engagement with received Pāli textual tradition. That such a high degree of narrative innovation existed in Theravādin history suggests possibilities for present-day innovation without rejecting or being rejected by the tradition. |
ISSN | 87554178 (P); 15533913 (E) |
點閱次數 | 819 |
建檔日期 | 2009.12.16 |
更新日期 | 2019.11.21 |
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