Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Nirmala Salgado's Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist "concepts" such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practice?

Author Nirmala S. Salgado (MA, SOAS, University of London; PhD, Northwestern University) has published widely on Buddhist nuns. She teaches religion to undergraduates at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.

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