Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns 9780861718221, 9780861713622

Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries 9780824843014

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The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns 9780834842687

Description A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their v

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Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology Of Emptiness

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Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries: a Translation of the Pi-ch'iu-ni Chuan 0824815416, 9780824815417

"A millennium and a half ago some remarkable women cast aside the concerns of the world to devote their lives to Bu

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Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women [1] 0674427734, 9780674427730

The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the fir

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Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China 9780824862367

Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particularly in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynic

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A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life 9004431772, 9789004431775

This book is a study of the formation and the practice of Buddhist canons and an attempt to present as fully as possible

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Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form 9780824861872

Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Sout

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The Daughters of Ironbridge

'A Journey. Compelling. Addictive.' Val Wood Perfect for fans of Maggie Hope and Katie Flynn - the first in a

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Daughters of the Damned

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