Nuns, yoginis, saints, and singers : women's renunciation in South Asia / edited by Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner, and Ann Grodzins Gold.
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TextPublication details: New Delhi : Zubaan, 2007.Description: xii, 375 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN: - 8189884344
- 9788189884345
- 206.570 820 954 22
- BL1055 .N86 2007
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Previously published as: Women's renunciation in South Asia : nuns, yoginis, saints, and singers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Sondra L. Hausner and Meena Khandelwal -- Do saints need sleep? / Meena Khandelwal -- Living practical dharma / Sara Shneiderman -- The true river Ganges / Kristin Hanssen -- Staying in place / Sondra L. Hausner -- Passionate renouncers / Kalyani Devaki Menon -- How Buddhist renunciation produces difference / Kim Gutschow -- Renouncing expectations / Lisa I. Knight -- These hands are not for henna / Anne Vallely -- Afterword : breaking away-- / Ann Grodzins Gold.
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