Women in Tibet: Past and Present

Janet Gyatso and Hanna Havnevik

Paper, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13099-8
$26.50

October, 2005
Cloth, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13098-1
$70.50

Introduction

Part I: Women in Traditional Tibet

Ladies of the Tibetan Empire (Seventh to Ninth Centuries), by Helga Uebach

The Woman Illusion? Research into the Lives of Spiritually Accomplished Women Leaders of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by Dan Martin

The Autobiography of a Medieval Hermitess: Orgyen Chokyi (1675-1729), by Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Part II: Modern Tibetan Women

Female Oracles in Modern Tibet, by Hildegard Diemberger

Outstanding Women in Tibetan Medicine, by Tashi Tsering

Women in the Performing Arts: Portraits of Six Singers, by Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy

The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo, by Charlene E Makley

Women and Politics in Tibet Today, by Robert Barnett

Contributors

Appendix

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian Religion
• Asian Studies

About the Author

Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University Divinity School. She is the author of Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary and In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Remembrance and Mindfulness in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Hanna Havnevik is assistant professor at the University of Oslo and is the author of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns: History, Cultural Norms, and Social Reality and The Life of Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche (1865-1951).

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