Rethinking Gender and Female Laity in Late Imperial Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Biographies
This paper explores how lay female believers are depicted in the Chinese monastic Pure Land Buddhist texts and how a particular late-imperial Chinese Buddhist biography collection betrayed the previously existing narrative of female laity. Moreover, I wish to show that there had existed a long-lasti...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-08-01
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Series: | Religions |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/9/705 |