Buddhism Beyond Gender Vendor_FOLTR Author: John Powers

Author: John Powers

"An exquisite and prophetic book

and usher in an era of perfect peace

One could say she is the earliest known Buddhist feminist

Buddhism Beyond Gender Vendor_FOLTR Author: John PowersAt the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessnessforgetting the selfas the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views of any kind only leads to more suffering for ourselves and others. And what has a greater hold on peoples imaginations or limits them more, asks Rita Gross, than ideas about biological sex and what she calls the prison of gender roles? Yet if clinging to gender identity does, indeed, create obstacles for us, why does the