Starkey, C orcid.org/0000-0002-7807-6617 (2019) Meditation in Monastic Life. In: Farias, M, Brazier, D and Lalljee, M, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Meditation. Oxford Handbooks Online . Oxford University Press ISBN 9780198808640
Abstract
This chapter examines the multiple roles that meditation plays in the lives of contemporary Buddhist monastics. Specifically, and drawing on rich ethnographic data, it focuses on the experiences of women who have taken Buddhist ordination within six different Buddhist groups and lineages in the British Isles. This chapter provides a brief history of the lived experience of meditation among emerging and established Buddhist monastic groups in Britain and an analysis of the role, function, and value of meditation practices, particularly among women. It makes comparisons between women of different Buddhist traditions in their approach to meditation and considers the implications of this for understanding the function of meditation in the Buddhist monastic tradition. Underpinning this approach is a challenge to assumptions about the individualistic nature of meditation in the contemporary West, emphasizing its communal role among monastic women in Britain
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019, Oxford University Press. This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in The Oxford Handbook of Meditation. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | meditation, monasticism, gender, Buddhism, Great Britain |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2019 11:31 |
Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Series Name: | Oxford Handbooks Online |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808640.013.32 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:151303 |