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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melnick Dyer, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Mi-ʼgyur-dpal-sgron.

Buddhist nuns--Tibet Region--Biography.

Buddhist nuns.

Yoginīs--Tibet Region--Biography.

Yoginīs.

Lamas--Tibet Region--Biography.

Lamas.

Buddhism--Tibet Region--History.

Buddhism.

Tibet Region.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One A Privileged Life

ch. Two Authorizing the Saint

ch. Three Multivocal Lives

ch. Four Mingyur Peldron the Diplomat

ch. Five The Death of Mingyur Peldron and the Making of a Saint.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Melnick Dyer, Alison. Tibetan nun Mingyur Peldrön

ISBN:

9780295750354

0295750359

9780295750361

0295750367

OCLC:

1300755315