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Title: Thai Women in Buddhism by Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn ISBN: 0-938077-84-8 Publisher: Parallax Pr Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Easy reading but lacks depth and accuracy
Comment: While this book does provide an introduction to this significant, but under researched, area, and does have some useful and interesting insight into the modern Thai social scene, it falls far short of other work in this area (e.g. the work of Penny van Esterik or Nicola Tannenbaum). Perhaps the most disappointing for me were the first two pages and this set the tone for the rest of the book - the comments on early Thai history are hardly scholarly or correct, relying heavily on Quaritch Wales and Thanom Anamwat, neither of whom are specialists in this period, together with some highly disputed inscriptions. A glance at the bibliography is enough to tell the reader this is a light weight introductory work. Sadly there is no index. It is to be hoped it is followed by a more useful scholarly work which does actually rely on the source texts (which this book promised but failed to do)- as it stands it is something of a roman à thèse - passionately argued and one cannot quarrel with some of the sentiment. It is a pity it was not more deeply researched.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent; an indispensable source
Comment: In recent years, we have been treated to a spate of books and articles on the subject of women in Buddhism, most of which tell us more about the authors' ideological biases than about women or Buddhism. Prof. Chatsumarn has written what is possibly the only book available on Thai women in Buddhism, and has done a superb job of it. I have searched far and wide for a book that would give me a sense of what it means to be Thai, female, and Buddhist. Even living in Thailand for a while, as I have, didn't afford the insight I sought. This is a subject which is rarely discussed, let alone written about. Prof. Chatsumarm deserves high marks just for having the courage to do it. It's an added bonus that she really knows what she's talking about. J. Thacker
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Title: Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism by Rita M. Gross ISBN: 0791414043 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture by Stephen Batchelor, Dalai Lama ISBN: 0938077694 Publisher: Parallax Pr Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Lotus Sutra by Burton Watson ISBN: 0231081618 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Before He Was Buddha: The Life of Siddhartha by Hammalawa Saddhatissa, Jack Kornfield ISBN: 1569752303 Publisher: Ulysses Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Buddhism in America by Richard Hughes Seager ISBN: 0231108699 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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