{"id":21499,"date":"2024-04-16T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T11:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/gender-dynamics-in-buddhist-communities-navigating-nunhood-in-zanskar-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T11:32:01","slug":"gender-dynamics-in-buddhist-communities-navigating-nunhood-in-zanskar-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/gender-dynamics-in-buddhist-communities-navigating-nunhood-in-zanskar-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Dynamics in Buddhist Communities: Navigating nunhood in Zanskar and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For citations \/ sources: use as many as needed; Please make reference to the youtube short movie + &#8220;Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas (2004) Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, an ethnography* by the anthropologist Kim Gutschow&#8221; (see attached instructions for chapters required)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Some notes on the youtube video:&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Daughter: Palkit<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Mum: liberal (let the daughter choose what she wants to do) vs Dad: traditional (women should stay and work at home; only daughter, must get married; Grandma said on her death bed for Daughter to never become a nun)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u201cYou must make your own decision, the secret is in your heart\u201d &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Becoming woman in Zanskar<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Tenzin &#8211; Palkit\u2019s friend<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Parents drank <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">chang<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> without telling her, accepted on her behalf, brought by some men<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"2\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Drinking and making offerings of chhaang are part of many pan-Tibetan social and religious occasions, including settling disputes, welcoming guests, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">wooing<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"2\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Tradition: once parents drink chang, have to get married<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"2\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Need to sign marriage contract &#8211; marrying off their daughter is just a transaction?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">But Tenzin does not want to leave fam and friends and home<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"2\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Her mother &#8211; contradictory &#8211; in front of Tenzin speaks of how she knows Tenzin will be happy with the marriage &#8211; behind Tenzin admits she does not know, that Tenzin does not know anyone in the new family<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"2\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">When horses came, neither father or mother was happy &#8211; so why sell her off in the first place &#8211; seems like they are blindly following tradition without much consideration?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Becoming nun to break free of the social norm of parents marrying off their daughters to a completely unknown family?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u201cBecoming a nun, the only way for a women to be free, and the refuge for a broken heart\u201d &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Becoming woman in Zanskar<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Girls never went to school, only boys &#8211; joining a nunnery can change that<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For citations \/ sources: use as many as needed; Please make reference to the youtube short movie + &#8220;Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas (2004) Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, an ethnography* by the anthropologist Kim Gutschow&#8221; (see attached instructions for chapters required) Some notes on the youtube video:&nbsp; 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