Women Under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka

by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz

Book Overview

Tessa Bartholomeusz explores the relationship between female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka and attitudes about women and the religious vocation. She gives a history of Buddhist female... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521071682
• ISBN13: 9780521071680
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"