We are proud to announce that we are co-sponsoring a Center for the Study of Religion talk:
Brides of the Buddha:
Nuns’ Stories from the Avadanasataka
April 18 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Royce 243
For
young women in early South Asia, marriage was a crucial event that largely
determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet while many of the
rules and requirements for Hindu marriage around the beginning of the Common
Era are well documented, there has been little in the way of systematic
examinations of the evidence for marriage customs among Buddhists of this
period. In this respect and others, our understanding of the lives of early
Buddhist women is still limited. In her recent book, Brides of the Buddha:
Nuns’ Stories from the Avadānaśataka, Dr. Muldoon-Hules used ten stories from a
major collection of Buddhist narratives compiled sometime in the first five
centuries C.E., in conjunction with other contemporary texts from both Hinduism
and Buddhism, to examine the social landscape of early India. In this talk, she
discusses some of what these tales can tell us about Buddhist marital customs,
Hindu-Buddhist tensions, and regional variation in South Asian Buddhism during
this period.
Dr. Karen
Muldoon-Hules completed a Ph.D. (2011) and an M.A. (2005) in Asian Languages
and Cultures at UCLA. She also holds a Master’s in Library and Information
Science from Indiana University. She teaches undergraduate courses for Asian
Languages and Cultures Department and for the Study of Religion Program at
UCLA. She has presented at a number of major conferences and published several
articles and the book on which this talk is based.Please RSVP at:
http://religion.ucla.edu/event/brides-buddha-nuns-stories-avadanasataka/
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Brides of the Buddha: Nuns'
Stories from the Avadanasataka - Center for the Study of Religion - UCLA
religion.ucla.edu
For young women in early South Asia,
marriage was a crucial event that largely determined their socioeconomic and
religious future. Yet while many of the rules and requirements for Hindu
marriage around the beginning of the Common Era are well documented, there
has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence for...
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We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
CBS Staff
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