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Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, University of Michigan
Religion, Assistant Professor
Recent Scholarship:
Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood: Giving Away the Body of Indian Buddhist
Literature (forthcoming in Fall 2006 with Columbia University Press).
"Mother-Love and Mother-Grief: South Asian Buddhist Variations on a
Theme," forthcoming in Journal of Feminist Studies in
Religion.
"Debt to the Mother: A Neglected Aspect of the Founding of the Buddhist
Nuns' Order," forthcoming in Journal of the American Academy of
Religion.
"Woman, Bodhisattva, and Buddha," Journal of Feminist Studies
in Religion 17:1 (2001).
"The Story of Rupavati: A Female Past Birth of the Buddha,"
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 23:1
(2000).
"Gender," in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Robert E. Buswell,
Jr., editor (Macmillan Reference, 2004), Volume 1.
Interests:
Women in Buddhism
Gender imagery in Buddhist literature
Maternal imagery in Buddhist literature
Courses Taught:
Goddesses of India
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