by Anne C. Klein
How can women discover who they are? Do all women share certain essential qualities? Can people change themselves in fundamental ways? Or are our identities primarily shaped by environment, to be changed only from without? Of the many women searching for answers to these questions, relatively few have turned to Buddhism for insight. Yet, similar debates are central to traditional Buddhist thought. Is enlightenment already present in everyone, Buddhists ask, merely awaiting discovery? Or can it be developed only through cultivation of certain qualities? In this groundbreaking work, Anne Klein becomes the first scholar to put Buddhist and feminist thoughts on identity in conversation with each other. Despite the daunting barriers of geography, language, and culture that separate them, Buddhism and contemporary feminism have much to say to each other. Buddhist practices such as mindfulness - in which calm centering and keen awareness of change coexist - and compassion - in which the self
Shonda Terrill
Sky Bluethorne
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