Buddhism after patriarchy : a feminist history, analysis, and reconstruction of Buddhism / Rita M. Gross.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-356) and index.

I. Orientations. 1. Strategies for a Feminist Revalorization of Buddhism. 2. Orientations to Buddhism: Approaches, Basics, and Contours -- II. Toward an Accurate and Usable Past: A Feminist Sketch of Buddhist History. 3. Why Bother? What Is an Accurate and Usable Past Good For? 4. Sakyadhita, Daughters of the Buddha: Roles and Images of Women in Early Indian Buddhism. 5. Do Innate Female Traits and Characteristics Exist? Roles and Images of Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism. 6. The Feminine Principle: Roles and Images of Women in Indian and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. 7. Conclusions: Heroines and Tokens -- III. "The Dharma is Neither Male nor Female": A Feminist Analysis of Key Concepts in Buddhism. 8. Resources for a Buddhist Feminism. 9. Setting the Stage: Presuppositions of the Buddhist Worldview. 10. Strategies for a Feminist Analysis of Key Buddhist Concepts. 11. Gender and Egolessness: Feminist Comments on Basic Buddhist Teachings. 12. Gender and Emptiness: Feminist Comments on Mahayana Teachings. 13. Gender and Buddha-Nature: Feminist Comments on Third Turning Teachings and the Vajrayana -- IV. The Dharma is Both Female and Male: Toward an Androgynous Reconstruction of Buddhism. 14. Verdicts and Judgments: Looking Backward; Looking Forward. 15. Androgynous Institutions: Issues for Lay, Monastic and Yogic Practitioners. 16. Androgynous View: New Concerns in Verbalizing the Dharma. 1. "I Go for Refuge to the Sangha": Relationship and Enlightenment. 2. Sacred Outlook and Everyday Life. 3. Spiritual Discipline: Vision and Transcendence in Remaking the World -- Methodological Appendices -- A. Here I Stand: Feminism as Academic Method and as Social Vision -- B. Religious Experience and the Study of Religion: The History of Religions