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| Deconstructing Androcentrism in Buddhist Literature Through the Lens of Ethnography: A Case Study of Bhutanese Nuns | ||
| 作者 | Sonam Wangmo (著) ; Edo, Juli (著) ; Fadzil, Kamal Solhaimi (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities |
| 卷期 | v.25 Supp. 1 |
| 出版日期 | 2018 |
| 頁次 | 143 - 165 |
| 出版者 | Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| 出版者網址 | https://penerbit.usm.my/ |
| 出版地 | Penang, Malaysia [檳城, 馬來西亞] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | androcentrism; ethnography; feminist Buddhist methodology; Buddhism; Bhutanese nuns |
| 摘要 | Traditional androcentric sociology has reinforced biased views of women and portrayed women as silent research objects of minor importance that figure marginally in academic writing, thereby distorting the knowledge base. The same tendencies have been observed in Buddhist religious literature. The bone of contention in the feminist critique of Buddhism is the omission of women from religious literature. Although Buddhist women’s spiritual prowess was well documented in early Buddhism in religious literature such as the Therīgatha, later Buddhist literature began to demonstrate androcentric tendencies, in most instances completely ignoring the religious lives of women. Since women have been largely sidelined in Buddhist texts, it is important to go beyond textual dimensions to gain deeper insights into women’s religious lives. The feminist Buddhist scholar, Rita Gross (2009), in her monumental work, A Garland of Feminist Reflections, emphasised the need to explore various ways other than our own to think, live and practice religion to broaden our horizons to avoid a narrow-minded approach to academic research. Citing two case studies of Buddhist nuns in Bhutan, this paper argues for ethnography as an alternative to traditional text-based scholarship on religious studies whereby women tell their stories and paint their own reality. |
| 目次 | Abstract 143 Keywords and phrases 143 Introduction 144 Druk Yul: A Religious History of the Land of the Thunder Dragon 146 Correcting Gender Imbalance in Buddhist Scholarship through the Lens of Ethnography 147 Methodology and Research Setting 149 Concealing Objectivity or Confessing Subjectivity? 150 The Research Process and Conclusions from the Ethnographic Study 150 A Glimpse of Narratives from the Ethnographic Study 152 In the Shadow of the White Eagle: Jachung Karmo Nunnery 153 Jashar Goenpa: The Rising Rainbow 154 Missed Opportunities and Exploitation: The Struggles of Bhutanese Nuns 156 Conclusion 161 Notes 162 References 164 |
| ISSN | 13949330 (P); 21804257 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21315/kajh2018.25.s1.8 |
| 點閱次數 | 125 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.12.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.04.01 |
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