Looking at early Indian Buddhist texts and inscriptions, we can generally find gender pairing within the terminology deployed, a situation which is replicated in many related to monastic discipline (Vinaya) teachings addressed by Buddha either his male or female disciples (Skilling 2001) [...]

Victor Pelevin, whose rise to popularity coincided with the fall of Soviet Union, critiques notion national identity via prism Zen Buddhism. Pelevin embraces religion’s idea volatile self and undertakes project spiritually empowering Russians, by exposing futility constructing any identity. With linguistic, cultural, historical cross-references between Japan Russia, author creates a dialogical ...