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Sallie Jiko Tisdale: Women in Buddhism
February 17, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
We meet to share the embodied female experience in our lives and practice. This includes the stories of Buddhist women from the past as well as the women we know today. There are many qualities to this experience: joy, bitterness, transformation, silence, frustration, celebration. This workshop is for people of any and all gender identities. We all carry an aspect of the feminine and Dharma sees gender as completely empty. But we will focus specifically on the embodied female in our relative experience, and how we as women have been both seen and unseen in Buddhist practice.
This event will be in person at the Portland Center as well as on Zoom. The recording will be available for all who register.
Sallie Jiko Tisdale is the author of ten books, most recently The Lie About the Truck. Her earlier books include Women of the Way, Talk Dirty to Me and Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). She published a collection of essays, Violation, in 2015. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and Tricycle, among other journals. Jiko also teaches at Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon.
