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Women in Korean Zen - Lives and Practices (Hardcover)
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Women in Korean Zen - Lives and Practices (Hardcover)
Series: Women in Religion Series
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A rare and vivid narrative of a Buddhist nun's training and
spiritual awakening. In this engagingly written account, Martine
Batchelor relays the challenges a new ordinand faces in adapting to
Buddhist monastic life: the spicy food, the rigorous daily
schedule, the distinctive clothes and undergarments, and the
cultural misunderstandings inevitable between a French woman and
her Korean colleagues. She reveals as well the genuine pleasures
that derive from solitude, meditative training, and communion with
the deeply religious - whom the Buddhists call ""good friends.""
Batchelor has also recorded the oral history/autobiography of her
teacher, the eminent nun Son'gyong Sunim, leader of the Zen
meditation hall at Naewonsa. It is a profoundly moving, often
light-hearted story that offers insight into the challenges facing
a woman on the path to enlightenment at the beginning of the
twentieth century. Original English translations of eleven of
Son'gyong Sunim's poems on Buddhist themes make a graceful and
thought-provoking coda to the two women's narratives. Western
readers only familiar with Buddhist ideas of female inferiority
will be surprised by the degree of spiritual equality and authority
enjoyed by nuns in Korea. While American writings on Buddhism
increasingly emphasize the therapeutic, self-help, and comforting
aspects of Buddhist thought, Batchelor's text offers a bracing and
timely reminder of the strict discipline required in traditional
Buddhism.
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