Renunciation and Empowerment of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar-Burma
Building A Community of Female Faithful
Biographical note
Hiroko Kawanami, Ph.D. (1991), LSE, University of London, is lecturer in Buddhist studies at Lancaster University, U.K. She is co-editor of Religions in the Modern World (Routledge, 2002; 2009) and the special issue on Myanmar-Burmese religions in Asian Ethnology (2009)
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All interested in gender and Buddhism, the religious position of Buddhist nuns, history of monastic education, sangha and society in Myanmar-Burma, Buddhist studies and anthropology.
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