Lenore Friedman
Auteur de Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Lenore Friedman
Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment (1997) — Directeur de publication — 92 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- cir. 1940's
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Professions
- psychotherapist
- Relations
- Packer, Toni (zen teacher)
- Organisations
- Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism
Membres
Critiques
Meetings With Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in… par Lenore Friedman
A study of seventeen American women who have become Buddhist teachers.
The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.
Although Buddhism emphasizes that attachment to the body causes suffering, the body can be seen as a vehicle leading to enlightenment. Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon have collected 33 essays on this paradox. In chapters on suffering, nature, gender, devotional practices, and self, female students of Buddhism explore the paradox of embodiment through examinations of sickness, disability, pain, suffering, childbirth, menopause, addiction, aging, th… (plus d'informations)
Although Buddhism emphasizes that attachment to the body causes suffering, the body can be seen as a vehicle leading to enlightenment. Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon have collected 33 essays on this paradox. In chapters on suffering, nature, gender, devotional practices, and self, female students of Buddhism explore the paradox of embodiment through examinations of sickness, disability, pain, suffering, childbirth, menopause, addiction, aging, th… (plus d'informations)
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The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.
Although Buddhism emphasizes that attachment to the body causes suffering, the body can be seen as a vehicle leading to enlightenment. Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon have collected 33 essays on this paradox. In chapters on suffering, nature, gender, devotional practices, and self, female students of Buddhism explore the paradox of embodiment through examinations of sickness, disability, pain, suffering, childbirth, menopause, addiction, aging… (plus d'informations)
The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.
Although Buddhism emphasizes that attachment to the body causes suffering, the body can be seen as a vehicle leading to enlightenment. Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon have collected 33 essays on this paradox. In chapters on suffering, nature, gender, devotional practices, and self, female students of Buddhism explore the paradox of embodiment through examinations of sickness, disability, pain, suffering, childbirth, menopause, addiction, aging… (plus d'informations)
Listes
Buddhism (1)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 238
- Popularité
- #95,270
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 3