Women in Tibet

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Janet Gyatso, Hanna Havnevik
Columbia University Press, 2005 - 436 pagine
Filling a gap in the literature, this volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet. Here are queens from the imperial period, yoginis and religious teachers of medieval times, Buddhist nuns, oracles, political workers, medical doctors, and performing artists. Most of the essays focus on the lives of individual women, whether from textual sources or from anthropological data, and show that Tibetan women have apparently enjoyed more freedom than women in many other Asian countries. The book is innovative in resisting both romanticization and hypercriticism of women's status in Tibetan society, attending rather to historical description, and to the question of what is distinctive about women's situations in Tibet, and what is common to both men and women in Tibetan society.
 

Sommario

Ladies of the Tibetan Empire Seventh to Ninth Centuries CE
29
The Woman Illusion? Research into the Lives of Spiritually Accomplished Women Leaders of the 11th And 12th Centuries
49
Orgyan Chokyi 16751729
83
Female Oracles in Modern Tibet
113
Outstanding Women in Tibetan Medicine
169
Portraits of Six Contemporary Singers
195
Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo
259
Women and Politics in Contemporary Tibet
285
Chinese sources
377
Western language sources
378
Short NGO publications and press articles
398
Governmental and other documents
401
Discography
402
Transliteration of Phoneticized Tibetan Terms
403
Index
431
Copyright

Bibliography
367

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Informazioni sull'autore (2005)

Janet Gyatso isprofessor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet(Columbia University Press, 2015), Women in Tibet: Past and Present (Columbia University Press, 2006), and others.

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