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May 11, 2024 | tricycle.org | Donald Hoffman |Amy Langenberg |Jeff Wilson |Devika Bandana

PODCAST EPISODEWomen & the Body in Buddhism (with Amy Langenberg)The podcast host and history of medicine scholar C. Pierce Salguero and the South Asian Buddhism scholar Amy Langenberg discuss Buddhist views on women and the body and the pushback feminist scholars face when bringing issues of gender, sex, and abuse to light. They move beyond patriarchy and reveal ways women monastics wielded agency in shaping understandings of their bodies.