Subjectivity Politics in Sorrow Mountain: Transnational Feminism and Tibetan Autobiography

Oct. 15, 2006

[1] It has become a commonplace to describe growing Western engagement with Buddhism as a search for relief from spiritual vacuity and deep dissatisfaction produced by modernity. Buddhism in this narrative figures as either pre-modern or timeless, with Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in particular symbolizing an otherwise lost authenticity...