The Moon and Flowers: A Woman's Path to Enlightenment

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Summary: women and buddhism
Review: This book presents a buddhist perspective on women's issues such as abortion, motherhood, feminism, but it also gives balance to more universal themes such as livelihood and dealing with diversity. This book presents a fresh perspective on all the above issues, which is a good change to the usual dichotomy of conservative/liberal rhetoric we seem to get from mass media. Because much of what one hears is either conservative or liberal from an american paradigm, very little of any opinion we hear seems to sound original. A book like this provided a newer voice in the sea of conformed discourse. Each topic is penned by a different individual and are all very well written in terms of giving the reader a better understanding of not just what buddhism is, but how it affects the perspectives, beliefs and lives of it's followers. In addition, much of the materials are written by british individuals (given that this is a windhorse publication), which gives a different cultural perspective on the aforementioned issues as well.

Rating:
Summary: women and buddhism
Review: This book presents a buddhist perspective on women's issues such as abortion, motherhood, feminism, but it also gives balance to more universal themes such as livelihood and dealing with diversity. This book presents a fresh perspective on all the above issues, which is a good change to the usual dichotomy of conservative/liberal rhetoric we seem to get from mass media. Because much of what one hears is either conservative or liberal from an american paradigm, very little of any opinion we hear seems to sound original. A book like this provided a newer voice in the sea of conformed discourse. Each topic is penned by a different individual and are all very well written in terms of giving the reader a better understanding of not just what buddhism is, but how it affects the perspectives, beliefs and lives of it's followers. In addition, much of the materials are written by british individuals (given that this is a windhorse publication), which gives a different cultural perspective on the aforementioned issues as well.