Usually a category of religious phenomena, such as religious experience, mysticism, the nature of deities; or the role and status of persons; healing in religious traditions; sectarian groups; major thinkers or movements; or themes and approaches in the study of religion. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Spring Semester informationSu Jung Kim
370A: Adv Tps:Buddhism & Gender
Adv Tps:Buddhism & Gender
This course covers the role of Buddhism in lives of women in Asia and gender as a category of analysis for the study of Buddhism. Although the academic study of Buddhism and gender and women studies in Asia have become established fields of inquiry, there have been relatively few attempts to examine the Buddhist impact on women or other cultural influence on Buddhist attitudes toward women. In this course, we examine the images of the feminine in Indian Buddhism, role expectations of and ideals about Buddhist nuns and laywomen, attitudes toward women in Asian religious traditions, and finally the varieties of Buddhist ideals about women as well as the roles women played in Buddhism in Asia.