Practice in Buddhist-Womanist Thought

Medine, Carolyn M. Jones

doi:10.1353/bcs.2016.0003

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“…This cultivation, practice in the field of knowledge is, I think, Buddhist. It signals hooks's sense of a need for ongoing practice (see Medine, ) and refinement of theory that transforms and leads to freedom. Free, one can.…”

Section: Critical Pedagogy and Practicementioning

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Transformation, fear, and freedom in Teaching to Transgress

Medine¹

2019

Teaching Theology & Religion

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One of four short essays published in this issue of the journal to celebrate the 25th anniversary of bell hooks's classic text book, Teaching to Transgress (1994). The authors reflect on the importance of this text for their teaching, when they discovered it, and how it has shaped their approach to the classroom, as illustrated in a particular teaching strategy or assignment that they have used that is inspired by the book.

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“…This cultivation, practice in the field of knowledge is, I think, Buddhist. It signals hooks's sense of a need for ongoing practice (see Medine, 2016) For Spivak, techne becomes a middle term between theory and practice (Sipiora & Atwell, 1990).…”

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Transformation, fear, and freedom in Teaching to Transgress

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2019

Teaching Theology & Religion

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Toward Buddhist Womanism: Tonglen Practice in The Color Purple

Huang

2022

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Tonglen is a Tibetan Buddhist practice that aims at developing the practitioner’s bodhicitta. In this article, I argue that it not only finds expression in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple through the protagonist Celie, but adds more complexity to the womanist philosophy for which Walker has been ensconced in positions of influence. More specifically, Celie follows an implied Buddhist practice of tonglen; in the process of “taking in and sending out”, her bodhicitta has been generated and cultivated. Underlying her tonglen practice is Buddhist womanism demonstrating how African American women can survive the social oppression and injustice by way of acknowledging their own terrible afflictions, empathizing with those enduring intense suffering, male and female, extending their loving kindness, comprehending the absence of intrinsic entity and the principle of dependent origination, etc. In addition, the article suggests that the fight for the survival of the oppressed is a type of Buddhist practice in Walker’s Buddhist womanism.

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Practice in Buddhist-Womanist Thought

Cited by 2 publications

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Transformation, fear, and freedom in Teaching to Transgress

Transformation, fear, and freedom in Teaching to Transgress

Toward Buddhist Womanism: Tonglen Practice in The Color Purple

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