Abstract
African-American women who practice Buddhism and write about Buddhism are emerging. Books about Buddhism have been written by angel Kyodo williams, Jan Willis, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Jasmine Syedullah, and Cheryl A. Giles. Self and no self are examined through the writings of williams, Willis, Manuel, and Syedullah.
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- 1.
“Lakkhana Sutta: The Marks of a Great Man” in Digha Nikaya: The Long Discourses of the Buddha, translated by Maurice Walshe (1987), 441.
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Ruth King, Mindful of Race Transforming Racism from the Inside Out (Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2018).
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angel Kyodo williams, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace. New York, NY: Penguin Compass, 2000, 2.
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Ibid. 20.
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Ibid., 21.
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Ibid., 22.
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williams , 54.
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Ibid., 72.
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Ibid., 153.
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Ibid., 164.
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williams , 172.
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Ibid., 57.
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Willis , 151.
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Ibid., 183.
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Willis , 233.
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Ibid., 243.
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Manuel , 7.
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Ibid., 18.
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Manuel , 26.
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Syedullah earned her PhD in Politics with emphasis in Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- 21.
Williams , Owens, Syedullah, 16–17.
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I also utilized W.R.D. Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in my dissertation, but Object Relations Theory is not the subject of this chapter.
- 23.
Carolyn Akua McCrary, “Interdependence as a Normative Value in Pastoral Counseling with African Americans,” The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 18, nos. 1 and 2, (Fall/Spring 1990/1991), 123.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., 124.
- 26.
Ibid., 124.
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Self-preservation is one of 12 spiritual movements (akin to spiritual formation stages) that some African-American Buddhist lesbians experience between growing up Christian and becoming Buddhist.
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African goddess deity exchange is one of 12 spiritual movements (akin to spiritual formation stages) that some African-American Buddhist lesbians experience between growing up Christian and becoming Buddhist.
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Yetunde, P.A. (2018). African-American Women Buddhist Dharma Teachers and Writers on Self and No Self. In: Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology. Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94454-8_5
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