Lenore Friedman
Author of Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America
About the Author
Works by Lenore Friedman
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- Birthdate
- cir. 1940's
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- psychotherapist
- Organizations
- Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism
- Relationships
- Packer, Toni (zen teacher)
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- California, USA
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The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.
Although Buddhism emphasizes that attachment to the body causes suffering, the body can be seen as a vehicle leading to enlightenment. Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon have collected 33 essays on this paradox. In chapters on suffering, show more nature, gender, devotional practices, and self, female students of Buddhism explore the paradox of embodiment through examinations of sickness, disability, pain, suffering, childbirth, menopause, addiction, aging, th show less
Although Buddhism emphasizes that attachment to the body causes suffering, the body can be seen as a vehicle leading to enlightenment. Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon have collected 33 essays on this paradox. In chapters on suffering, show more nature, gender, devotional practices, and self, female students of Buddhism explore the paradox of embodiment through examinations of sickness, disability, pain, suffering, childbirth, menopause, addiction, aging, th show less
A study of seventeen American women who have become Buddhist teachers.
Being bodies : Buddhist women on the paradox of embodiment / edited by Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon..--1st Edition by Lenore Friedman
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The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.
Although Buddhism emphasizes that attachment to the body causes suffering, the body can be seen as a vehicle leading to enlightenment. Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon have collected 33 essays on this paradox. In chapters on show more suffering, nature, gender, devotional practices, and self, female students of Buddhism explore the paradox of embodiment through examinations of sickness, disability, pain, suffering, childbirth, menopause, addiction, aging show less
The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.
Although Buddhism emphasizes that attachment to the body causes suffering, the body can be seen as a vehicle leading to enlightenment. Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon have collected 33 essays on this paradox. In chapters on show more suffering, nature, gender, devotional practices, and self, female students of Buddhism explore the paradox of embodiment through examinations of sickness, disability, pain, suffering, childbirth, menopause, addiction, aging show less
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