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Tables of Contents for Soaring and Settling
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Overview: Buddhist Practice, Feminism, and Social Concern
ix
PART 1 THE ROAD LESS CHOSEN: BECOMING A FEMINIST BUDDHIST SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER
3
48
Introduction: Autobiography and Feminist Method
3
4
1 The Female Body and Precious Human Birth: An Essay on Anger and Meditation
7
6
2 Crying in the Prophetic Voice as a Buddhist Feminist
13
6
3 Why Me? Reflections of a Wisconsin Farm Girl Who Became a Buddhist Theologian When She Grew Up
19
15
4 Passion and Peril: Transgressing Boundaries as a Feminist Buddhist Scholar-Practitioner
34
17
PART 2 SOARING AND SETTLING BUDDHISM ENGAGED IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES
51
104
Introduction: Meditation, Impermanence, and Social Change
51
4
5 Soaring and Settling: Riding the Winds of Change
55
5
6 Helping the Iron Bird Fly: Western Buddhists and Issues of Authority
60
15
7 Interdependence and Detachment: Toward a Buddhist Environmental Ethic
75
19
8 Finding Renunciation and Balance in Western Buddhist Practice: Work, Family, Community, and Friendship
94
14
9 Buddhist Values for Overcoming Pro-natalism and Consumerism
108
17
10 Children, Children's Rights, and Family Well-being in Buddhist Perspective
125
15
11 Impermanence, Nowness, and Non-judgment: Appreciating Finitude and Death
140
15
PART 3 BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVES IN FEMINIST THEOLOGY
155
68
Introduction: What Is Buddhist Theology?
155
4
12 Immanence and Transcendence in Women's Religious Experience and Expression: A Nontheistic Perspective
159
12
13 Some Buddhist Perspectives on the Goddess
171
16
14 The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism: Reflections of a Buddhist Feminist
187
12
15 "I Will Never Forget to Visualize That Vajrayogini Is My Body and Mind"
199
12
16 Life-giving Images in Vajrayana Buddhist Ritual
211
12
Notes
223
10
Index
233