Tag: Sexist cultural stereotypes

A WOMAN’S VOICE (II): THE ALLEGEDLY ‘CRUEL TIBETAN QUEEN’, MARGYELMA AND ‘UNRELIABLE’ BIOGRAPHIES: A white, male biographer’s treatment and ‘shaky sources on the ‘villainess Tibetan queen’, Margyel Dongkar, the denigration/silencing of a female scholar-translator’s comments on it, and another unreliable biography about the 16th Karmapa

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"Margyelma's legacy as a quasi-historical, literary, and folk figure, remains strong in the contemporary Tibetan imagination. For example, it is not uncommon to hear male practitioners refer to women they are unhappy with as incarnations of Margyel Dongkar."--Joe McLellan (2023) “It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman, that's why there are… Continue reading A WOMAN’S VOICE (II): THE ALLEGEDLY ‘CRUEL TIBETAN QUEEN’, MARGYELMA AND ‘UNRELIABLE’ BIOGRAPHIES: A white, male biographer’s treatment and ‘shaky sources on the ‘villainess Tibetan queen’, Margyel Dongkar, the denigration/silencing of a female scholar-translator’s comments on it, and another unreliable biography about the 16th Karmapa

PLAYFUL PRACTITIONERS OR MINDLESS MISOGYNISTS? THE ‘ARTS OF LOVE’ OR ‘ARTS OF ‘A**HOLERY’? The question of sexist double standards, silent women and two Tibetan Buddhist male ‘heroes’, Gendun Chophel and Drugpa Kunley

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"Pay no respect to mean Lamas, Pay no respect to immoral monks, Pay no respect to dogs, crows or women: That is the teaching on the Three Rejects."― Drugpa Kunley  "Because of my lowly status and state of poverty, I was reviled and abused by practically everyone. So—although I had the capacity to reveal profound… Continue reading PLAYFUL PRACTITIONERS OR MINDLESS MISOGYNISTS? THE ‘ARTS OF LOVE’ OR ‘ARTS OF ‘A**HOLERY’? The question of sexist double standards, silent women and two Tibetan Buddhist male ‘heroes’, Gendun Chophel and Drugpa Kunley