Women and Buddhism
Elevating Our Voices
In this course, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei explores the topic of Women in Buddhism from both a historical and a current-day perspective. She draws on her personal experience as well as scholarly research, and urges us to explore our own relationship to gender and spiritual growth.
About Sensei
Catherine Pawasarat Sensei, a contemporary dharma teacher, attendant, consort, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center shares her unique views, experience, and practices regarding this contemporary and planetary Triple Gem.
In this video, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei shares her personal experience as a female Buddhist practitioner and how we can adapt and shift our traditional perceptions of gender.
You can also access this same talk through the following Dharma If You Dare podcast episode:
Online Course: Women in Buddhism
Want to go deeper in your exploration of women and gender in Buddhism? Join Catherine Pawasarat Sensei on her upcoming self-study online course.
In this course, Catherine Sensei explores what it means to be a woman in Buddhism from both a personal and a historical perspective. She traces her path from growing up a young American feminist to her multicultural experiences living in Japan and Brazil. She shares about her relationship as attendant, partner and co-founder of a retreat centre with her male teacher, Qapel Doug Duncan. She also discusses historical views regarding female tantric deities and female teachers up to the present day. Lastly, she offers an inspired view of the future, highlighting a new wave of spiritual teachers that represent more cultural and gender diversity.
This course addresses charged topics head on, such as sex, power, and gender fluidity. It asks us to consider our own perspectives and fixed views, and offers us room to explore how our perspectives may change over time.
Recorded during her 3-day weekend workshop with the Menla Institute in 2021, this inspiring series of talks and reflections is now an online course that you can work through at your own pace.
Women in Buddhism
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