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Author Melnick Dyer, Alison, author.

Title The Tibetan nun Mingyur Peldrön : a woman of power and privilege / Alison Melnick Dyer.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note to the Reader -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. A Privileged Life -- 2. Authorizing the Saint -- 3. Multivocal Lives -- 4. Mingyur Peldrön the Diplomat -- 5. The Death of Mingyur Peldrön and the Making of a Saint -- Tibetan Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary "Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurmé Ösel, to consider how privilege influences individual authority, how authoritative Buddhist women have negotiated their position in gendered contexts, and how the lives of historical Buddhist women are (and are not) memorialized by their communities. Mingyur Peldrön's story challenges the dominant paradigms of women in religious life and adds nuance to our ideas about the history of gendered engagement in religious institutions. Her example serves as a means for better understanding of how gender can be both masked and asserted in the search for authority-operations that have wider implications for religious and political developments in eighteenth-century Tibet. In its engagement with Tibetan history, this study also illuminates the relationships between the Geluk and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism from the eighteenth century, to the nonsectarian developments of the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Mi-'gyur-dpal-sgron, Smin-gling Rje-btsun, 1699-1769.
Mi-'gyur-dpal-sgron, Smin-gling Rje-btsun, 1699-1769
Buddhist nuns -- Tibet Region -- Biography.
Yogins -- Tibet Region -- Biography.
Lamas -- Tibet Region -- Biography.
Buddhism -- Tibet Region -- History.
Nonnes bouddhistes -- Tibet historique -- Biographies.
Lamas (Bouddhisme) -- Tibet historique -- Biographies.
Bouddhisme -- Tibet historique -- Histoire.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Buddhism
Buddhist nuns
Lamas
Yogins
Tibet Region
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Other Form: Print version: Melnick Dyer, Alison. Tibetan nun Mingyur Peldrön Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2022 9780295750354 (DLC) 2021050724
ISBN 0295750375
9780295750378 (electronic bk.)
9780295750354 (hardcover)
9780295750361 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000070883842
AU@ 000073932288

 
    
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