https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 08 Dec 2022 04:37:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/power-dynamics-in-fe-male-literary-dialogues/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:09:59 +0000 https://conference.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=18283 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/gender-in-translating-devotional-verse/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:12:03 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=17237 In this collaborative discussion breakout session, Jue Liang (University of Virginia) and Natasha Mikles (Texas State) discuss the dynamics of socially constructed ideas about gender on our readings of classical texts and biographies. The group also explores devotion as a culturally constructed idea and devotional language as gendered. Jue and Natasha lead the group in developing “word banks” of terms that elicit a mood of binary gender constructs and then the discussion naturally unfolds into thoughtful exploration of the deconstruction of the binary and a consideration of the opposites of gender and devotion and the value we place on all of these concepts.

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