buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bartholomeusz, Tessa
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- V IND 8 2008
- Thesaurus
- boeddhisme, religieuze functionarissen, religieuzen, historisch, Sri Lanka, 1890-1899, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, onderzoek
- Description
- The author explores the relationship between female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka and attitudes about women and the religious vocation. She gives a history of Buddhist female renouncers in Sri Lanka and recounts her own field experiences of contemporary Buddhist women who have chosen to live celibate and cloistered lives. .First published 1994.