...Marlo Starr Abstract In Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being , sixteen-year-old Nao faces severe bullying and sexual violence at her new school in Japan. Seeking escape, she experiments with different identities, turning first to the Internet and then later to Zen Buddhist practices...

... of disembodiment and cyber- and Buddhist feminisms. In a recent issue of Meridians, Erica Johnson, writing about the Trinidadian Canadian writer Dionne Brand, and her text, A Map to The Door of No Return, used the term "neo-archive" to describe the strategy of creating a past and psychic balance by way...

... to understand her worldview. She was a compassionate, peaceful, selfless Buddhist. From the Western point of view "peacelovingness" or "passiveness" are not considered positive values. Assertiveness and aggression rule the Darwinian world in late capitalism. My mother was an anachronism as soon as she set foot...

... and their rituals. The Christian Bible's Book of Genesis says that God made man in His image, thus planting the seed offemale disadvantage, the impairment and nullification offemale identity. "Allreligious fundamentalists," pursues el Saadawi, "be they Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, share similar views about...

... window opening into a vast past. I explore the old Kizil Buddhist Caves with the best preserved Buddhist cave paintings in central Asia, travel the new highway built by China Petro, cutting through the heart of the Taklamakan, and wander the old ruins of the ancient city ofJiaohe built LOCATING...

..., Judaic, Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist-are often fueled by their opposition to global corporate capitalism in the confusion of our age. Women are the first victims of the rigidity and patriarchal violence offundamentalism. To fight against neocolonialism and fundamentalist movements, women must join hands...

...-Buddhist communists who were either Chinese or Vietnamese, regardless of their actual religion or ethnicity. In fact, being Sino-Thai regardless of generational settlement in Thailand was automatically suspect. Although the sexual violence and shame experienced during the October 6 Massacre has...

... of an “atmosphere of happiness,” the deep mourning of my mother, fearful of her own future, hovers. At the same time, I am entrenched in another kind of forgetting of self, guided by Buddhist principles, that allows me to both be in the middle of this painful story and reject the mourning and suffering of it. I...

...: “Today I’m married—to a man I met 10 years ago at a Buddhist retreat.” 4 In a 2012 article in Marie Claire entitled “My First Girlfriend,” Rebecca Walker writes that she first discovered her bisexuality at the age of twenty-one and soon afterward came to realize that sexuality is not fixed...

... in Christianity, and the Buddhist mandalasare composed of circles and squares. IfI am the center, as I move the protective horizon moves with me. If you understand that, you know that you are the center of a world enclosed by the horizon. That is what I try to translate, as the concept of the dome in Islamic...

... Cambodia as a "distant and troubled land" (NBC Dateline 2009, 2.23 min Noting that Cambodia is a "small Buddhist country" and showing an undercover white man being led into a building by several Cambodian people, Hanson says, "to follow their trail we'll have to infiltrate their perverted world, pretend...

... in governance, but various segments of the Sinhala majority have continued to oppose them by whipping up nationalist and religious sentiments. Sections of the Buddhist clergy are always on hand to denounce any efforts to give parity to minority religions or devolve power to minority groups usually by staging...

... ancestry includes landowners, scholars, and government officials. I have six siblings. I am a citizen of the Republic of Korea. I am from a land of pear fields and streams, where Buddhist temples are hidden in the mountains, where people laugh loudly and honor their dead. (Trenka 2003, 14) Shortly after...

... is over." Further, Surendra invokes the difference between Lahulis and people of the plains. When I probed him further on this, he responded by falling back on the essentialist logic of the (Buddhist) "tribe as peaceful" and on an impulse to stick by a fellow Lahauli man in trouble. The former...

... of the population of the bastithat stretches across southwestern Kolkata, while some 12 percent of its other residents are Hindu, and the rest Christian and Buddhist. This largely migrant population (primarily from the states ofBihar and Uttar Pradesh, and some from Bangladesh) came in search of work as dock labor...

... in a working-class, Buddhist family. Her father, Fred Taro Saika, was a farmworker; her mother, Dorothy Fukushima, worked in canneries and cleaned houses. After high school Peggy worked as a hairdresser while earning an undergraduate degree at Sacramento State College. She later earned a master's degree...

... inhabitable Himalayan mountain areas of Nepal for hundreds of years and their cosmologies reflect deep Buddhist and shamanistic influences, while Maithils, who are Hindus, have lived primarily in the very lowest flatlands to the south. (Both Maithils and Sherpas have migrated to the Kathmandu Valleyin...