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ZEN Women - Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters (Paperback)
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ZEN Women - Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters (Paperback)
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This landmark presentation at last makes heard the centuries of
Zen's female voices. Through exploring the teachings and history of
Zen's female ancestors, from the time of the Buddha to ancient and
modern female masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Grace Schireson
offers us a view of a more balanced Dharma practice, one that is
especially applicable to our complex lives, embedded as they are in
webs of family relations and responsibilities, and the challenges
of love and work.
Part I of this book describes female practitioners as they are
portrayed in the classic literature of "Patriarchs' Zen"--often as
"tea-ladies," bit players in the drama of male students'
enlightenments; as "iron maidens," tough-as-nails women always
jousting with their male counterparts; or women who themselves
become "macho masters," teaching the same Patriarchs' Zen as the
men do. Part II of this book presents a different view--a view of
how women Zen masters entered Zen practice and how they embodied
and taught Zen uniquely as women. This section examines many urgent
and illuminating questions about our Zen grandmothers: How did it
affect them to be taught by men? What did they feel as they trying
to fit into this male practice environment, and how did their Zen
training help them with their feelings? How did their lives and
relationships differ from that of their male teachers? How did they
express the Dharma in their own way for other female students? How
was their teaching consistently different from that of male
ancestors? And then part III explores how women's practice provides
flexible and pragmatic solutions to issues arising in contemporary
Western Zen centers.
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