“Mountains, Rivers, and the Whole Earth”: Koan Interpretations of Female Zen Practitioners

Though recent years have seen a critical reappraisal of Buddhist texts from the angle of performance and gender studies, examinations of Zen Buddhist encounter dialogues (better known under their edited form as “koan”) within this framework are rare. In this article, I first use Rebecca Schneider’s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ben Van Overmeire
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-04-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/4/125