The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön / Alison Melnick Dyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melnick Dyer, Alison, author.

Contributor:

funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mi-ʼgyur-dpal-sgron, Smin-gling Rje-btsun, 1699-1769.

Mi-ʼgyur-dpal-sgron.

Buddhist nuns.

Lamas.

Tibet Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Other Title:

Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön

Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2022

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Melnick Dyer Alison : Alison Melnick Dyer is assistant professor of religious studies at Bates College. She received her Ph.D. in religious studies from University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 2014. This is her first book.Alison Melnick Dyer is assistant professor of religious studies at Bates College.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

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ISBN:

0-295-75037-5