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The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldroen - A Woman of Power and Privilege (Hardcover)
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The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldroen - A Woman of Power and Privilege (Hardcover)
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Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindroeling
Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldroen
(1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame
significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play
a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community.
Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis,
centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurme OEsel,
to consider how privilege influences individual authority, how
authoritative Buddhist women have negotiated their position in
gendered contexts, and how the lives of historical Buddhist women
are (and are not) memorialized by their communities. Mingyur
Peldroen's story challenges the dominant paradigms of women in
religious life and adds nuance to our ideas about the history of
gendered engagement in religious institutions. Her example serves
as a means for better understanding of how gender can be both
masked and asserted in the search for authority-operations that
have wider implications for religious and political developments in
eighteenth-century Tibet. In its engagement with Tibetan history,
this study also illuminates the relationships between the Geluk and
Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism from the eighteenth century, to
the nonsectarian developments of the nineteenth century. The open
access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from
the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
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