Queerness and the Buddhist self: Who are we beyond sex, gender, and desire?

In the Eurocentric West, the emphasis has long been on identifying, developing, and embracing the individual self. One’s primary duty, perhaps one’s very reason for being, is to find himself, to know herself, and, perhaps, given the contemporary focus on self-esteem, to celebrate oneself. At the same time, a longstanding Eastern spiritual lesson is that […]