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Women Living Zen

Women Living Zen
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9780195123937
ISBN-13 : 019512393X
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Book Synopsis Women Living Zen by : Paula Kane Robinson Arai

Download or read book Women Living Zen written by Paula Kane Robinson Arai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many Buddhists have made concessions to contradictory religious and social expectations during the twentieth century, these Zen nuns spent much of the century advancing their traditional monastic values by fighting for and winning reforms of the sect's misogynist regulations."--BOOK JACKET.


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