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Women and Monastic
Buddhism in Early South Asia
This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the
sociocultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant
discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous
category – thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious
discourse – this monograph examines their sustained role in the larger
context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms their agency. It high-
lights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners,
lay and monastic members and the like within Buddhism. The volume
also investigates the individual experiences of the members, and their
equations and relationships at different levels – with the
Samgha
at
large with their own respective
Bhikşu
or
Bhikşunī Samgha
, with the
laity, and with members of the same gender (both lay and monastic). It
rereads, reconfigures and reassesses historical data in order to arrive at
a new understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which
it developed and flourished.
Bringing together archaeological, epigraphic, art historical, liter-
ary as well as ethnographic data, this volume will be of interest to
researchers and scholars of Buddhism, gender studies, ancient Indian
history, religion and South Asian studies.
Garima Kaushik
is assistant archaeologist in the Chandigarh Circle of
the Archaeological Survey of India. She has excavated at a number of
important historic and protohistoric archaeological sites in the coun-
try including Sravasti, Dholavira, Govishana and Adi Badri. She has
been actively involved in academic as well as field research on early
Buddhist historical sites for over 15 years.
Archaeology and Religion
in South Asia
Series Editor:
H
IMANSHU
P
RABHA
R
AY
, Chairperson, National Monuments
Authority
Editorial Board:
G
AVIN
F
LOOD
, Academic Director, Oxford Centre for Hindu
Studies; J
ESSICA
F
RAZIER
, Academic Administrator, Oxford Centre for Hindu
Studies; J
ULIA
S
HAW
, Institute of Archaeology, University College, London;
S
HAILENDRA
B
HANDARE
, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; D
EVANGANA
D
ESAI
,
Asiatic Society, Mumbai; V
IDULA
J
AISWAL
, Jnana Pravaha, Varanasi, former pro-
fessor, Banaras Hindu University.
This Series, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, reflects
on the complex relationship between religion and society through new per-
spectives and advances in archaeology. It looks at this critical interface to
provide alternative understandings of communities, beliefs, cultural systems,
sacred sites, ritual practices, food habits, dietary modifications, power and
agents of political legitimisation. The books in the Series underline the impor-
tance of archaeological evidence in the production of knowledge of the past.
They also emphasise that a systematic study of religion requires engagement
with a diverse range of sources such as inscriptions, iconography, numismatics
and architectural remains.
Also in this Series
Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian
History
Editor: Himanshu Prabha Ray
ISBN 978-1-138-82252-8
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia
Garima Kaushik
ISBN 978-1-138-10001-5
Women and Monastic
Buddhism in Early South Asia
Rediscovering the invisible believers
Garima Kaushik
First published 2016
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© 2016 Garima Kaushik
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ISBN: 978-1-138-10001-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-65788-2 (ebk)
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