Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia

This book presents gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the sociocultural foundations of Buddhism. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members and the like within Buddhism.

Garima Kaushik is Assistant Superintending Archaeologist working with the Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. She has excavated at a number of important historic and protohistoric archaeological sites in the country including Sravasti, Dholavira, Govishana and Adi Badri. She was one of the founding faculties of the School for Buddhist Studies, Nalanda University, Nalanda where she worked for two years as Assistant Professor and has been actively involved in academic as well as field research on early Buddhist historical sites for over 20 years.