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Katherine Scahill, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Music, has always been interested in the overlap of music and mindfulness. She grew up playing the violin, and, as an undergraduate at ...

(The Conversation) — The Therigatha, a collection of poems written in Pāli by Buddhist nuns, reveals that women’s enlightenment may not necessarily require renunciation of domestic life. (The ...

Introduction : gendered materialization of Guanyin -- Dancing Guanyin : the transformative body and Buddhist courtesans -- Painting Guanyin with brush and ink : negotiating Confucianism and Buddhism - ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In many religions and cultures, women who are menstruating or who just gave birth are not allowed to enter sacred sites, such as temples, or participate in religious rituals. This ...

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