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

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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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Poems of Early Childhood

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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author 9780300271478

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumeri

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Early Buddhist Society: The World of Gautama Buddha 9781438491233, 9781438491240

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Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China 9780824862350

The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative peri

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Lady Midrash : Poems Reclaiming the Voices of Biblical Women 9781498284196

What if the women of the Bible told their own stories? Lady Midrash: Poems Reclaiming the Voices of Biblical Women bring

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The Book of Men and Women : Poems 9780295805870, 9780295989143

David Biespiel's energetic language, so varied and musical and precise, is quite unmatched by that of other contemp

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