Women Under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz

Women Under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka

Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions

Tessa J. Bartholomeusz

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Tessa Bartholomeusz 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 e...

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