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

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

Women played major roles in the history of Buddhist China, but given the paucity of the remaining records, their voices

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Poems of Early Childhood

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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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The ministry of women in the early church [2d ed.]

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Early Buddhist Teachings 9781614294689, 9781614294528

A clear, elegant clarification of the basic teachings of early Buddhism, ideal for both general readers and scholars. D

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The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free 9781982123925

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Early Buddhist Meditation: The Four Jhanas as the Actualization of Insight 9781138937925, 9781315676043

This book offers a new interpretation of the relationship between 'insight practice' (satipatthana) and the at

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Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan 9780824836580, 9780824838126, 6570951249, 2012042311

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Early Buddhist Meditation: The Four Jhanas as the Actualization of Insight [Hardcover ed.] 1138937924, 9781138937925

This book addresses a key problem in the study of Buddhist meditation: The relationship between ‘insight practice’ (vipa

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