Transcending Gender: Female Non-Buddhists’ Experiences of the Vipassanā Meditation Retreat

Female non-Buddhists have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreats since the 1960s. These memoirists relate to the English-speaking world their experience of the retreat process and self-transformations. Early memoirists traveled Asia in order...

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Main Author: Brooke Schedneck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/4/90