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Tibetan Nuns: The Status of Exiled Tibetan Nuns in India,
Released as a follow up to TWA's seminal 2005 research Tibetan Women: The Status of Exiled Tibetan Women in India, Tibetan Nuns: The Status of Exiled Tibetan Nuns in India provides pioneering research into the lives and conditions of Tibetan nuns living in exile. Based upon results obtained from a randomly sampled survey of over 350 Tibetan nuns living in exile, this volume represents the first detailed look into the realities of the modern monastic system.
Covering a range of issues, from the state of education within nunneries, to the female monastic experience in both Tibetan and in exile, to the monastic-oriented understanding of gender issues and discrimination, Tibetan Nuns provides a lucid addition to the oft-neglected study of women within the monastic community.
Research results are augmented within by TWA's own interpretations, presented
in conjunction with both policy prescriptions and recommendations for further inquiry.Tibetan Nuns provides a rare view into the radically changing female monastic community, and illuminates a modern nun that is often liberated from traditional religious constraints. A new generation has emerged through the expansion of education and new initiatives undertaken directly in support of nuns in exile that are poised to not only seize the administrative and theological reigns of their own institutions, but also to break into the rarified air of high level Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. Young, well-educated, dedicated, and politically conscious, these nuns represent a new breed defying the traditional stereotypes of the past.
