Transcending Gender: Female Non-Buddhists’ Experiences of the Vipassanā Meditation Retreat
Religions March 22, 2018 Brooke Schedneck
Female non-Buddhists have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreats since the 1960s. These memoirists relate to the English-speaking world their experience of the retreat process and self-transformations. Early memoirists traveled Asia in order to learn and practice vipassanā meditation. These memoirs are as much about the meditation...