SESSION 4: TIBETAN BUDDHIST WOMEN
FRIDAY 26 JULY
Chair: Joanna Cook
| 9:00-9:30 | Laboring Bodies and Ethical Superiority: The Practice of “Half-Nuns” in Rural Tibetan Villages in Western China
Yasmin Cho |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Pema Choling Nunnery: Its visions and challenges Ani Rinzin |
| 10:00-10:30 | Receiving Bhiksuni Ordination: Implications for the Tibetan Buddhist Diaspora
Karma Lekshe Tsomo |
| 10:30 – 11.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 11.00-11:30 | The Zab mo gCod kyi gdams ngag don tshogs dgu ma and Ma cig Lab dron
Deji Droma |
| 11:30-12:00 | Did Machik Lapdrön Really Teach Chöd?
Sarah Harding |
| 12:00-12:30 | Goals of financial gain and religious practice among the female Ngakmas (sngags ma) in A mdo Reb gong
Tiina Hyttiäinen |
| 12:30 – 1:00 | Nuns and Nunneries in Tibetan Buddhism (btsun ma and btsun ma dgon ba)
Nyima Lhamo |
| 1:00–1:30 | Discussion
Discussant: Joanna Cook |