Dakini Power: Buddhist Women Speak Out

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Dakini Power: Buddhist Women Speak Out

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Bent on enlightenment, wrathful and playful, a dakini seduces, wills, and tugs practitioners toward wisdom. Dakini Power, a recent book by German journalist Michaela Haas, explores the feminine dakini ideal as a force for institutional change. In a historically male hierarchy, modern female teachers are transforming Tibetan Buddhism, tugging it toward greater acknowledgement of female ability and accomplishment.
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This book might be interesting, but I would find a book about female Buddhist teachers from many different Buddhist traditions more interesting.
Does such a book exist? (A hint to all you Buddhist writers out there! :D )
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Luke wrote:This book might be interesting, but I would find a book about female Buddhist teachers from many different Buddhist traditions more interesting.
Does such a book exist? (A hint to all you Buddhist writers out there! :D )
See: Turning the Wheel: Women Creating the New Buddhism (good book with a weak title) by Sandy Boucher

there are a number of other examples. The Boucher book is a classic
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These are just another expression of sexism. I hope you all realize this.
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tlee wrote:These are just another expression of sexism. I hope you all realize this.
Well, perhaps if one takes an extreme point of view, then that might be true, but I think that the reality is that men are oppressed in certain situations and women are oppressed in others. Both genders experience the problems of samsara, and I think that if these kinds of books get more women interested in Buddhism, then this is generally a good thing.

May people of both genders attain enlightenment swiftly! :) :namaste:
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tlee wrote:These are just another expression of sexism. I hope you all realize this.
Prove it.
Luke wrote: Both genders experience the problems of samsara, and I think that if these kinds of books get more women interested in Buddhism, then this is generally a good thing.

May people of both genders attain enlightenment swiftly! :) :namaste:
Well spoken. I'd go further to include those who do not identify with either gender, or with one exclusively, or who are transgender--everyone without exception.
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I love this book! Thanks Michaela. Also, check out this amazing video about "Dakini Power" w/Michaela Haas & Lama Tsultrim Allione a Malibu bookstore: https://vimeo.com/64409587.

Emaho! :thumbsup:
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Jikan wrote:I'd go further to include those who do not identify with either gender, or with one exclusively, or who are transgender--everyone without exception.
Yes, you're right. I often forget about types of people who I don't meet very often.
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Not so much types of people, I would suggest. Just types and shades of gender. :smile:
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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