Article Gender Article Equality in and on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns’Gender Article Terms Equality in and on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns’Gender Terms Equality in and on Tibetan Buddhist Padma’tsho (Baimacuo) 1 and Sarah Jacoby 2,* Nuns’ Terms 1 PhilosophyPadma’tsho Department, (Baimacuo) Southwest 1 and Sarah Minzu Jacoby University, 2,* Chengdu 610041, China; [email protected] 2 Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA 1 Philosophy Department,1 Southwest Minzu Universi2, ty, Chengdu, 610041, China; [email protected] * Correspondence:Padma’tsho (Baimacuo) [email protected] and Sarah Jacoby * 2 Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA 1 * Correspondence: Philosophy Department, [email protected] Southwest Minzu Universi ty, Chengdu, 610041, China; [email protected] Received:2 Department 13 September of Religious 2020; Accepted: Studies, 13Northwestern October 2020; University, Published: Evanston, 21 October IL 60208, 2020 USA Received:* Correspondence: 13 September [email protected] 2020; Accepted: 13 October 2020; Published: 20 October 2020 Abstract: Gender equality and feminism are often cast as concepts foreign to the Tibetan cultural region, Abstract:Received: 13Gender September equality 2020; andAccepted: feminism 13 Oc toberare often 2020; cast Published: as concepts 20 October foreign 2020 to the Tibetan cultural even as scholarship exploring alliances between Buddhism and feminism has grown. Critics of this region, even as scholarship exploring alliances between Buddhism and feminism has grown. Critics scholarshipAbstract: contend Gender that equality it superimposes and feminism liberal are often discourses cast as of concepts freedom, foreign egalitarianism, to the Tibetan and cultural human of this scholarship contend that it superimposes liberal discourses of freedom, egalitarianism, and rightsregion, onto even Asian as Buddhistscholarship women’s exploring lives, alliances without between regard Buddhism for whether and feminism/how these has grown. accord Critics with human rights onto Asian Buddhist women’s lives, without regard for whether/how these accord women’sof this self-understandings. scholarship contend Thisthat articleit superimposes aims to serve liberal as discourses a corrective of to freedom, this omission egalitarianism, by engaging and with women’s self-understandings. This article aims to serve as a corrective to this omission by human rights onto Asian Buddhist women’s lives, without regard for whether/how these accord transnationalengaging feministtransnational approaches feminist to listenapproaches carefully to tolisten the rhetoric,carefully aims, to the and rhetoric, interpretations aims, ofand a with women’s self-understandings. This article aims to serve as a corrective to this omission by groupinterpretations of Tibetan nuns of whoa group are of redefining Tibetan nuns women’s who activismare redefining in and women’s on their ownactivism terms. in Weand conclude on their engaging transnational feminist approaches to listen carefully to the rhetoric, aims, and thatown their terms. terms We are conclude not derivative that their of terms foreign are not or secularderivative liberal of foreign rights-based or secular theories, liberal rights-based but rather interpretations of a group of Tibetan nuns who are redefining women’s activism in and on their outgrowthstheories, of but Buddhist rather outgrowths principles takingof Buddhist on a newprinciples shape taking in modern on a new Tibet. shape in modern Tibet. own terms. We conclude that their terms are not derivative of foreign or secular liberal rights-based theories, but rather outgrowths of Buddhist principles taking on a new shape in modern Tibet. Keywords:Keywords:transnational transnational feminism; feminism; gender gender equality; equality; Tibetan Tibetan nuns; nuns; liberal liberal rights rights
Keywords: transnational feminism; gender equality; Tibetan nuns; liberal rights