#  Amy Paris Langenberg 

Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies and Buddhism; Colorado Scholar

WSRP Research Associate 2025-26

 

 

 



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## Home institution

Eckerd College

## Research project

**Accomplished Buddhist Women: The Female Monastic Discipline of the Great Assembly**

The Sanskrit text of the Mahasanghika-Lokottaravada Bhikshuni-vinaya provides an extensive archive documenting the lives of premodern Buddhist monastic women within women-centered and mostly women-governed institutions. This project will produce the first anthology of translations showing how they navigated the patriarchal pressures that circumscribed their lives.

## Profile

Amy Paris Langenberg is Professor of Religion at Eckerd College and specializes in classical South Asian Buddhism with a focus on monasticism, gender, sexuality, and the body. She also conducts ethnographic research on contemporary Buddhist feminisms, contemporary female Buddhist monasticism, and, more recently, sexual abuse in American Buddhism. Professor Langenberg’s monograph, Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom was published by Routledge in 2017 as part of Critical Studies in Buddhism series. Her collaborative study of sexual abuse in North American and transnational Buddhist convert communities, co-researched and co-written with Ann Gleig, will be published with Yale University Press in 2026.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## affiliation
    
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