... of the broader concerns and struggles of the Nyingma School at that time. In the following two chapters, Melnick Dyer looks outward to the relationships that defined the posthumous memory of Mingyur Peldrön. Chapter 4, “Mingyur Peldrön the Diplomat,” explores interactions between the female saint, her nun...

...Sarah H. Jacoby Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun . By Kurtis R. Schaeffer . New York : Oxford University Press , 2004 . xiii , 232 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S I N N E R A S...

...Karen M. Gerhart Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu . By Christina Laffin . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . viii, 270 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014...

...Brenda Falk The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan . By Gina Cogan . Harvard East Asian Monographs 366. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xvi, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780674491977 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

...Lori Meeks Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan . By James Dobbins . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xvi , 259 pp. $25.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 468 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T...

... her. This analytical interpretation is one of few Yü provides, as she generally errs on the side of description rather than analysis. Some of Yü's questions about continuity and change might have been addressed in conversation with recent social theory, and Nirmala Salgado's remarkable Buddhist Nuns...

...). One important subject for future scholarship is gathering extensive empirical data on contemporary Korean nuns and combining this with an anthropological examination of their conspicuous shift in status in recent decades. It would be useful to know, for instance, how contemporary Korean nuns perceive...

...Ding-Hwa E. Hsieh Given the exciting evidence revealed in these nuns' yulu , one must note that Grant does not take issue with earlier studies of Ming-Qing Buddhism, based on men's writings, and that some points made in her epilogue seem to undermine women's significance in the Linji Chan...

...Kathleen Nadeau Unconventional Sisterhood: Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines . By Heather L. Claussen . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2001 . 253 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 334 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Miriam Levering Women Under the Bō Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka . By Tessa Bartholomeusz . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1994 . xx, 284 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 746 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES to conflate...

...Brooke Schedneck The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma . By Ward Keeler . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2017 . xvi, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780824865948 (cloth). Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden Histories of Nuns in Modern Thai Buddhism...

...Kim Gutschow Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant . By Nirmala Salgado . London : Oxford University Press. 336 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Nirmala Salgado's Buddhist Nuns...

...Chien-Yu Julia Huang; Robert P. Weller Abstract Thirty years ago the buddhist compassion Relief Foundation (Ciji Gongdehui, hereafter Ciji) was virtually unknown. Lost in the backwater of Taiwan's eastern coast, the group began in 1966 with a nun, five disciples, and thirty housewives who...

... was discreetly amended in deference to the convenience of kings such as Bimbisara and Pasendi, the Kosalan. And quite a few scions of royal families joined the order of monks and nuns and played a leading part in the propagation of the creed during its early critical years. Early Buddhist Kingship BALKRISHNA G...

...Henrietta Harrison Abstract This paper uses the cult of Assunta Pallotta, an Italian Catholic nun who died in a north China village in 1905, to critique the existing literature on missionary medicine in China. She was recognized as holy because of the fragrance that accompanied her death, and later...

...). This is an anthropological study, carried out with love, care, and attention to detail, of the Japanese Soto nuns. Why would modern (Japanese) women want to give up the comforts of modern life, part with their beautiful hair a powerful symbol of womanhood and become monastics? What are their self-perceptions and their daily...

... arrested, imprisoned, and sometimes tortured hundreds, if not thousands, of its clerical critics. So manifest are the monks and nuns as dissidents that the Chinese press now routinely calls for the "re-education" of the Tibetan clergy. Using a script based solely on the testimonies of dissident Tibetan...

...). This is an anthropological study, carried out with love, care, and attention to detail, of the Japanese Soto nuns. Why would modern (Japanese) women want to give up the comforts of modern life, part with their beautiful hair a powerful symbol of womanhood and become monastics? What are their self-perceptions and their daily...