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    The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege
    The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege
    The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege
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    The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege

    By Alison Melnick Dyer

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    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.

    The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
    Release dateSep 13, 2022
    ISBN9780295750378
    The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege

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