SkyDancer - Karma Lekshe Tsomo

SkyDancer - Bibliography

SkyDancer

Introduction

Karma Lekshe Tsomo, ed.

To review: these books are ones I'm eager to get, or on my shelf waiting to be read, or that I've read and am trying to get time to write about.

Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Press, 1988.
Buddhism through American Women's Eyes: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Press, 1995.
Buddhist Women across Cultures: Realizations: Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

Based on Sakyadhita conferences held in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Ladakh, India.; See this review in the Journal of Global Buddhism by Jennifer Dumpert.; Dumpert highlights a "key question" asked in the book by Anne Carolyn Klein:

"...whether Western Buddhists — feminist-minded, politically-minded, academic— [in addition to influencing the Eastern women] will allow ideas to spread equally effectively in the other direction, allowing Western subjectivities— constructed through psychology, consciousness-raising, and fierce individuality—to be as affected and infected by the Dharma as the Dharma is by Western ideas."; "...whether Western Buddhists — feminist-minded, politically-minded, academic— [in addition to influencing the Eastern women] will allow ideas to spread equally effectively in the other direction, allowing Western subjectivities— constructed through psychology, consciousness-raising, and fierce individuality—to be as affected and infected by the Dharma as the Dharma is by Western ideas."
Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming against the Stream: Surry, England: Curzon Press, 2000.

Based on Sakyadhita conferences held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; and Claremont, California