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A Woman "For All Women" by Yanling Johnson
http://www.qi.org/articles/for_all_women.htmAung San Suu Kyi; Women in the news; daughter of Burma Independence hero Aung San.
http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/assk/assk.html
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Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas by Kim Gutschow - Gutschow, a visiting assistant professor in religion at Williams College, spent over a decade living in various Buddhist nunneries in the Zangskar region of Kashmir to produce a thoroughgoing ethnography describing the "alternative society" the nuns established within their restrictive environment. After describing the social, political, historical and economic context of Zangskar, Gutschow discusses the "Buddhist economy of merit" wherein monks—despite doctrinal teachings to the contrary—are believed to have "more Tantric prowess than nuns" in performing rites for villagers. They garner generous endowments that literally turn the monastery into a wealthy corporation that collects rent from sharecroppers and grants loans to villagers at 20 percent interest. By contrast, nuns are forced to labor in the fields for subsistence, are lorded over by monks and are vulnerable to public beatings, even rape. The inescapable struggle of being a woman in a patriarchal system is the heart of Gutschow's work and permeates her further discussions, including ideologies of purity and pollution and Tantric approaches to the question of female enlightenment. Although her academic tone can be dry, Gutschow's analysis is penetrating, and her supporting anecdotes are often vivid and effective. Her work reveals that the reality of Himalayan Buddhist monasticism, far from being Shangri-La, is thoroughly rooted in the very foibles of the world it professes to renounce. --Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment by Lenore Friedman (Editor), Susan Moon (Editor) - The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.
Blossoms of the Dharma: Living as a Buddhist Nun by Thubten Chodron (Editor), Sylvia Boorstein, Thubten Chodron (Editor), Elizabeth S. Napper - In recent years Buddhist nuns from Asia and the West have met together to become more active in improving their status in the female sangha. At "Life As A Buddhist Nun," the 1996 conference in Dharamsala, His Holiness the Dalai Lama supported this effort of Buddhist nuns to clarify their purpose in taking vows, widening their context, broadening community beyond their own abbeys, and supporting one another on their quest to achieve greater equality. This book gathers some of the presentations and teaching at this conference. Coming from many different countries and backgrounds, these women show ways they have found to embrace group practice in an era when most societies extol individualism. Their passion for earned wisdom should inspire lay practitioners and other nuns seeking the essence of Buddhist practice.
Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History by Rita Gross; 365 pages, April 1996
Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes by Karma Lekshe Tsomo - This book is a refreshing, experientially based and enrichng contribution of American women to Buddhism in the West.--Thubten Chodron, author
Buddha and the Female Spirit by Christine Hall
http://www.alternativeapproaches.com/magick/buddhism/buddhism2.htmBuddha Dhamma Women Practitioners at our Centre - Broadcast on 'The Buddhist Hour' Sunday 4 August 2002 on Hillside Radio 88.0 FM, Bayswater, Victoria, Australia.
http://www.bdcu.org.au/scw/women.htmlBuddhism and Women - A female child may prove even to be a better offspring than a male - http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/buddhism/dhammananda/227.htm
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue on Women and Feminism by V.A. Gunasekara
http://www.uq.net.au/slsoc/bsq/tr12.htmBuddhist Nuns from a Modern Perspective by Juo-hsueh Shih
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tsomo/NewsLetters/3-2.htm#ModernNunsBuddhist Women by Bimala Churn Law, The Indian Antiquary
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/lawbud.htm
Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations by Bhiksuni Karma Lekshe Tsomo - Each of the essays in Tsomo's highly readable anthology of the diverse history of women in Buddhism asks the question: "In what ways is Buddhism a constraint for women and in what ways is it liberative?" The women writers of these essays reclaim early Buddhist stories about women as foundational to the liberating power of Buddhism. They also recover for our notice the story of Mahaprajapati, who walked several hundred miles to implore Sakyamuni Buddha for an "order of women mendicants." On the basis of her work, the Buddha agreed that the spiritual potential of women and men is equal, and he recognized the right of women to wear the garb of a mendicant. Each of these essays traces the history of women in Buddhism in a particular culture. For example, Lorna Dewaraja examines "Buddhist Women in India and Precolonial Sri Lanka" while Paula K.R. Arai explores "Japanese Buddhist Nuns: Innovators for the Sake of Tradition." Other essays investigate the roles and status of women in Buddhism as it evolved in Korea, China and Tibet. The authors point out that the recognition of women by their predominantly Buddhist culture depends drastically upon the particular culture. As these essays demonstrate, Buddhist women are continuing to gain new respect for their religious practice in calling societies to change their attitudes about the role of women in religion. Tsomo's book is a powerful and richly diverse collection of women's voices, narrating the dynamic experience of women confronting the constraints and liberties of practicing Buddhism in their native lands. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc
Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier by Marianne Dresser - As Buddhism is assimilated into the West, it is imperative that women reshape its patriarchal structures and carve out a fully legitimate, empowering position for themselves. Marianne Dresser brings together the likes of Pema Chodron, Tsultrim Allione, and bell hooks, 30 women in all, who are doing just that. Writers, nuns, scholars, priests--even a martial arts master and a private investigator--discuss women in Buddhism in a range of essays. Several pieces question the suppression of emotion required for selflessness, appealing to the undeniable reality of day-to-day living. Others discuss their experiences as women in Buddhism, whether as nuns or as lay practitioners. Still others address the history of women in Buddhism, racial questions, meditation, poetry, compassion, social activism, and sexual orientation. Most of these writers have been in Buddhism for two or three decades and offer a wealth of experience and insights, targeted at women readers but no less valuable to men. --Brian Bruya
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Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment by Vicki MacKenzie - It sounds like a legend out of medieval Tibet: the ascetic who leaves home to join the Buddhist order, then spends 12 years in a cave, 15 hours a day in a meditation box. This is no legend, but you could call Tenzin Palmo legendary in her single-minded pursuit of higher realizations. From the East End of London to halfway up the Himalayas, she is now back in society, attempting to pull medieval Tibetan Buddhism into the modern era--women's rights and all. As biographer Vickie Mackenzie says by way of background, a group of elite women practitioners called "Togdemnas" still existed just decades ago. Tenzin Palmo, having studied with her male counterparts, is now canvassing the planet, welcoming women into full participation in Tibetan Buddhism and building support for an academy of Togdemnas that she plans to establish in the Himalayas. Mackenzie helps raise awareness for women's roles in Tibetan Buddhism by going into some detail about obstacles still faced by women as well as heroines who have overcome those obstacles, such as Yeshe Tsogyel (Sky Dancer) and Machig Lapdron, a mother who started her own lineage. If Mackenzie has it her way, it won't be long before Tenzin Palmo joins that list of heroines. --Brian Bruya
Chinese Bhiksunis in the Ch'an Tradition - Heng-Ching Shih
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-NX020/15_09.htm
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Dhammadharini - Vihara - Fremont, CA - a women's monastic retreat residence
http://www.dhammadharini.org/Diane Rizzetto - of the Bay Zen Center
http://www.bayzen.org/teacher.htmDiscourses of the Ancient Nuns Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/nunsuttas.html
Dreaming Me: From Baptist to Buddhist, One Woman's Spiritual Journey by Jan Willis - Destined for the same shelf as Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies and Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk and Amazing Grace, this is a powerful memoir of a "Baptist Buddhist" who writes with courage, compassion, and forgiveness. Like Lamott and Norris, Willis (religion, Wesleyan Univ.; Enlightened Beings, The Diamond Light) did not find her faith in the "easy way." Born into a "colored" Baptist family in Birmingham, AL, during the 1950s, Willis was subjected to hatred and humiliation firsthand. One of her earliest memories is of watching her mother stand behind a door with a loaded gun to protect her daughters as the Klan burned a cross on the family's lawn. The most heart-breaking scene is of Willis's father, who also loved learning, running away to the closest black college, camping out because he had no money, and being forced to go home because there were no jobs for educated blacks. A lesser spirit might have given up, but Willis followed her conscience, marching with Dr. King in Birmingham and opting to attend an Ivy League university. Eventually, her choices led her to rendezvous with both the Black Panthers and Buddhists in India. This searching memoir is recommended for all collections. Pam Kingsbury, Florence, AL
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Early Women Masters
http://earlywomenmasters.net/Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan by Barbara Ruch - book
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Famous women who happen to be Buddhist - by Women Active in Buddhism
http://lhamo.tripod.com/13famou.htmFemale Buddhas and Bodhisattvas according to Tibetan Buddhist tradition - Sakyadhita
http://www.sakyadhita.org/deities.htmlFemale Buddhist Monk - Painting
http://www.fengshuinewyork.com/Gallery/buddhistmonk.htmFemale Buddhist Monk - Unbreakable Spirits
http://www.asiasource.org/arts/unbreaksprts/Monk.cfmFemale Buddhist Names
http://www.kabalarians.com/female/buddha-f.htmFemale Deities - Khandro.net
http://www.khandro.net/deities_female.htm
Feminine Face of Buddhism by Gill Garrer-Halls - This book features historical and current women in Buddhism here and abroad in three traditions: Theravaden, Zen, and Tibetan.
Feminist Buddhism
http://www.loudzen.com/skydancer/faq/
First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentaries on the Therigatha by Susan Murcott
First Buddhist Women Poems and Stories of Awakening by Susan Murcott - First Buddhist Women is a readable, contemporary translation of and commentary on the enlightenment verses of the first female disciples of the Buddha. Through the study of the Therigatha, the earliest-known collection of women’s religious poetry, the book explores Buddhism's 2,600-year-long liberal attitude toward women. Utilizing commentary and storytelling, author Susan Murcott traces the journey of wives, mothers, teachers, courtesans, prostitutes, and wanderers who became leaders in the Buddhist community, acquiring roles that even today are rarely filled by women in other, patriarchal religions.
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Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism by Ellen Sidor - book
Gender Equality in Buddhism by Masatoshi Ueki - book - It was epoch making when Buddhism declared men and women equal in India where women traditionally were regarded as inferior to men. After the death of Buddhism's founder, Gautama Buddha, Buddhist monks, called H[i]nay[a]na Buddhist, became conservative and authoritarian and began to make light of women as well as lay believers. While the H[i]nay[a]na Buddhists discriminated against women, the Mah[a]y[a]na Buddhists tried to improve women's positions in society through their "Renaissance of Buddhism." Masatoshi Ueki discusses Nichiren's impartial view of women and insists that the male and female principles are indispensable for the perfection of personality.
Gio, Ginyo, Hotoke & Toji poems from The Tale of the Heike
http://buddhism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A//pages.nyu.edu/~sw4/RaihaiWomen.htmlGlimpse into the World of Buddhist Nuns by Stephen Kaczkowski
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/events/unicomm/Gazette/Archives/Oct16-00/nuns.htmGreetings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Buddhist Women from a message sent by His Holiness to the fourth International Conference of Buddhist Women 1995
http://hhdl.dharmakara.net/sakyadit.html
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Helping the Daughters of Buddha - Interview with Chatsumarn Kabilsingh by Monte Leach
http://www.shareintl.org/archives/social-justice/sj_mlhelping.htm
Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun by Kurtis R. Schaeffer - "A significant contribution toward filling the lacuna of research on female-authored Himalayan Buddhist sources."--Sarah H. Jacoby, The Journal of Asian Studies
"This book is a must-read for specialists and an appropriate text for undergraduates in courses dealing with Buddhism, women and religion, or the Tibetan and Himalayan regions."--HOICEHistorical Legen of Sun Bu-er poems
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I Give You My Life: The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist Nun by Ayya Khema, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (Translator) - You can imagine how their eyes grow round when Ayya Khema's students are treated to tidbits of her life. "There was that time with the anaconda in Brazil.... We crashed on a cliffside Himalayan road on our way to meet the mir of Hunza.... Torched by rebels, and I had to decide what to do with my nuns on our island..." Of course, her students badger her to write a book. The Jewish/German refugee, California housewife, Australian farmer, global nomad, and Buddhist nun comes through with a quiet, methodical story, that, if written in any other way, would seem more hyperbole than biography.
Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream by Karma Lekshe Tsomo - This book combines the voices of scholars and practitioners in documenting and analysing Buddhist women's history. It addresses many gaps in the documentation of Buddhist women's experience. The 26 articles - written by a range of Asian, Asian-American, and western Buddhists '- document the lives of women who, individually or collectively, have set in motion changes within Buddhist societies. The articles include analyses of issues such as gender, ethnicity, authority, and class that affect the lives of women in traditional Buddhist cultures and, increasingly, the west. The book is unique in analysing Buddhist women's historical experience in different Buddhist cultures and placing it side by side with western perspectives. It documents the growth of the global Buddhist women's movement and the important research on women in Buddhism inspired by this movement.
In Praise of Tara: Songs to the Saviouress: Source Texts from India and Tibet on Buddhism's Great Goddess by Martin Willson (Editor)
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Jiyu-Kennett - found of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives
http://www.obcon.org/saf.html
Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even Against the Wind by Sid Brown - From the Back Cover
The gripping story of Wabi, a young Thai woman who sought a religious life, The Journey of One Buddhist Nun recounts her struggle to overcome the numerous obstacles along her path.Wabi left her rural village at 17 to become a Buddhist nun in a land where religious men are honored and religious women are scorned. Despite these conditions, Wabi wanted to study Buddhism, to meditate, and to develop a profoundly religious life. She traveled to a monastery in Bangkok, where she heard she might be able to pursue her dream, but upon arrival found she needed money to become a nun-money she didn't have. Moving from difficulty to difficulty, Wabi finally found a home at a convent of Buddhist nuns, where she gained close friends, an education, and a vibrant meditation practice.
As Wabi's life unfolds on the pages of The Journey of One Buddhist Nun, readers are introduced to the background needed to understand Buddhism, Thai culture, the particular impediments women face in Southeast Asia, and the rewards of a deeply spiritual life. Buddhist philosophy, texts, and meditation techniques come alive as we learn the roles each played in Wabi's life. Western readers will be particularly interested in the description of Wabi's vivid, formative meditation experiences.
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Knee Deep in Grace: The Extraordinary Life and Teaching of Dipa Ma by Amy Schmidt - A tiny Indian woman leading an inconspicuous life in Calcutta profoundly influenced the evolution and teaching of Buddhist meditation practice in America. "Knee Deep in Grace" presents the life story of Dipa Ma Barua, along with the essential spiritual teachings that make her a towering figure in contemporary Buddhism. While she experienced fame in her lifetime and had a following of many Burmese, Indian, and American students, she was like the women saints of the Vedas, "remarkable women...from the dawn of history...who achieved realization while cleaning their homes and raising their children" ("Daughters of the Goddess, Women Saints of India"). Dipa Ma was remarkable in her ordinariness, astounding in her natural grounding in the reality of the present moment.
Kuan Yin: Myths and Revelations of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion by Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay, Man-Ho Kwok
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Lene Handberg - psychologist and psychotherapist U.D.
http://www.tarab-institute.org/gb/lenehandberg.htmLife as a Western Buddhist Nun by Ven. Thubten Chodron
http://lhamo.tripod.com/Chodron.htm
Lives and Liberation of Princess Mandarava: The Indian Consort of Padmasambhava by Bsam-Gtan-Glin-Pa, Lama Chonam (Translator)
Love Dharma: Relationship Wisdom from Enlightened Buddhist Women by Geraldine A. Larkin - This volume combines the advice and humour of a relationship book with the wisdom and compassion of a book on Buddhism. The author offers wisdom relevant to today's relationships in the stories of Buddhist women who have achieved enlightenment. Combining ancient texts with personal anecdotes, Larkin, an ordained dharma teacher, presents sound, if uncommon, advice.
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Man and Woman in the Teachings of the Buddha by Hellmuth Hecker
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tsomo/NewsLetters/3-1.htm#HellmuthMaya Lin Ancient & Modern; architect of the Civil Rights and Vietnam Veteran's Memorials
http://buddhism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A//pages.nyu.edu/~sw4/RaihaiWomen.html
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele - By her own reckoning, Adiele is an unlikely candidate for Buddhist spiritual enlightenment. Neither Asian nor disciplined, she doesn't fancy meditation; despises tofu; and, raised Unitarian, isn't particularly religious. Yet the Nigerian-Scandinavian ex-Harvard student from eastern Washington became the first black Buddhist nun in northern Thailand. She first went to Thailand at age 15, after winning a Rotary Club International Exchange Program scholarship at a time when most Americans could barely find Thailand on the map. Although used to being different--she wryly notes that, every day, she was an exchange student in her own country--she wasn't prepared for life in a tiny rural Thai community, in which she was the first black anyone had seen. But something about the country and Buddhism appealed to her and she chose to return, though she was as surprised as anyone else when she decided to become a Buddhist nun. A warm, witty account of an unusual woman's spiritual journey and search for identity between the vastly different cultures of East and West. June Sawyers-Copyright © American Library Association
Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists and the Art of the Self by Anne Carolyn Klein - The paradox of identity-self with others-is examined by a Buddhist feminist and author who has studied under Tibetan lamas. After joining a women's studies program at Harvard Divinity School in 1982, Klein hoped to reshape dialog between the essentialist and postmodern feminists by encouraging selected Buddhist practices. Mindfulness, for instance, can foster a sense of uniqueness in women's caretaking roles. Visualizing Tibetan Queen Yeshey Tsogyel (eighth century) for meditation, women can be empowered by the "unconditioned self" to surpass personhood and transcend linguistic constraints. Recognizing that some feminists, especially postmodern constructivists, will find an "ungendered essence" distasteful, Klein uses Yeshey Tsogyel, the Great Bliss Queen, as an emblem of the clear mind sphere, beyond dualities and available to all. Rather difficult reading, this treatise is recommended for academic libraries.
Dara Eklund, Los Angeles P.L.--Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America by Lenore Friedman - This book celebrates the flowering of women in American Buddhism. Lenore Friedman set out to explore this phenomenon by interviewing some of the remarkable women who were teaching Buddhism in the United States. The seventeen women she writes about vary in background, personality, and form of teaching. Together the represent the growing presence and influence of women teachers in America—a development that will surely affect Buddhism in the West for years to come. This revised edition includes a new section describing developments in these women's lives and work since the book's first publication in 1987. Teachers include:Toni Packer, Maurine Stuart, Pema Chödrön, Joko Beck, Ruth Denison, Bobby Rhodes, Jiyu Kennett, Sharon Salzberg, Karuna Dharma, Joanna Macy, Gesshin Prabhasa Dharma, Sonja Margulies, Yvonne Rand, Jacqueline Mandell, Colleen Schmitz, Ayya Khema, Tsering Everest
Merits of Practice from the Tibetan Sacred Biography of Machig Lapdron
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Not Mixing Up Buddhism: Essays on Women and Buddhism by Deborah Hopkinson - book
Nun's robes of various Buddhist tradition - Sakyadhita
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Open Mind: Women's Daily Inspirations for Becoming Mindful by Diane Mariechild - From the Back Cover--Meditation/Women's Studies
"There is only now, this moment, this flower...Look closely. Forget any other flower you have ever seen. Let this be the first flower." --from Open Mind
"I greatly appreciate the insight and wisdom to be found in Open Mind. Both the quotations and the editor's commentary offer the chance to step into each day replenished and widened-more fully awake, more fuly assenting to our own particular life." --Jane Hirshfield, author of Women in Praise of the SacredFrom the author of Mother Wit, the much-loved guide to women's spirituality, come crystalline daily readings that inspire and guide women toward mindfulness, compassion, and centered contemplation. Diane Mariechild's practiced insight leads readers through the year with guided visualizations, advice, parables, and quiet inspiration that draws seekers toward the serene and ancient wisdom of Buddhism. This clear and intelligent spiritual companion contains a wealth of stirring quotes from such luminaries as Alice Walker, Marion Wright Edelman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Pema Chodron, Charlotte Joko Beck, and Maya Angelou. Their voices inspire Mariechild's graceful spiritual direction, which leads the Western mind toward a calm center and a compassionate engagement with the world.
Ordination of Women in Early Buddhism by Ajahn Brahmavamso
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma3/ordwom.htmlOrdaining Women
http://www.abm.ndirect.co.uk/leftside/arty/his-life/women.htm
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Poems of Early Buddhist Nuns: Therigatha by C.A. Davids - book
Position of Women in Buddhism - by L.S. Dewaraja - This essay is chiefly based on a research paper presented in August 1979 to the International Conference of Indian Ocean Studies, held at the University of Western Australia.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/wheels/wheel280.html
Portraits of Buddhist Women: Stories from the Saddharmaratnavaliya by Dharmasena
Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, & Gender by Bernard Faure, Stephen F. Teiser (Editor) - The questions Faure raises are important ones: Is Buddhism a tool of liberation or oppression for women? What might a more egalitarian Buddhist practice consist of? Faure approaches his subject in his usual thorough manner. The wealth of historical, sociological, and cultural references may be daunting to some readers, but those who persevere will be rewarded. -- Martine Batchelor Tricycle
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Religious Feminism and the Future of the Planet: A Christian-Buddhist Conversation by Rita M. Gross, Rosemary Radford Ruethe - In several earlier works, Gross (Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues, LJ 8/98) and Ruether (Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology) have examined feminist issues in the context of Buddhism and Christianity, respectively. In this new work, each author delineates her views on both traditions and then responds to the other's comments, allowing a rich dialog to emerge that offers a glimpse of a hope-filled future for major religious traditions in the progressive wings of the emerging global culture. Both authors offer autobiographical sections and touch on, among other things, the strengths and problems they see in their own and the other's tradition and how they see these traditions contributing to an eco-spiritual view crucial to the survival of the planet. Free of clich , stridency, or anger, the voices are consistently assured and convincing. Of particular interest are the passages in which the authors discuss their coming to terms, as feminists, with traditions consistently criticized for their patriarchal structures and how the deep reading of these traditions sustains them in their progressive endeavors. An important and thought-provoking book; suitable for all academic and public collections. Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib, NY --Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Role of Women in Medieval Soto Zen by William Bodiford
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/imjs/programs/1998-fall/Abstracts/bodiford.html
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Sacred Songs by early Taoist and Buddhist women poets
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Sacred Voices: Essential Women's Wisdom Through the Ages by Mary Ford-Grabowsky - The idea for assembling this outstanding anthology of Sacred Voices came to editor Mary Ford-Grabowsky while she was packing up her possessions for a move to a new household. Sorting through her stack of spiritually inspirational quotes written on Post-It notes, it suddenly occurred to her that almost all of the quotes were by men. "How could I have ignored the sacred wisdom of my own sex?" she asks. The answer, of course, is that it was an easy oversight considering the historical credence given to the masculine perspective of the divine over the earthier, fleshy, relationship-centered perspective of the feminine.
Thus began Ford-Grabowsky's quest to assemble an anthology of women's spiritual writing. "I had expected the spiritual beauty and tenderness, the love and quiet wisdom, but not the towering, tested, truly holy strength," writes Ford-Grabowsky, who took five years to gather this powerful collection. Those seeking more traditional or orthodox religious writings will have to look elsewhere. But others who long for a feminine vision--whether to heal a spiritual crisis or simply find a quote to stick by a computer monitor--will find this anthology deeply satisfying. The first half is devoted to historical voices, such as Julian of Norwich, England; the Ashanti women of Ghana; and Lady Kasa of Japan. In the second half, "Voices of Our Times," readers will find the likes of Isadora Duncan, Virginia Woolf, Pema Chödrön, Sharon Olds, and Amy Tan. --Gail Hudson
Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices by Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, Lawrence Durrell - Alexandra David-Neel was the first European to explore Tibet at a time when foreigners were banned. Few people have led a life of adventure equal to hers, or made so much of it. This book presents a vividly detailed chronicle of David-Neel's quest to conquer her personal demons and of the outer journey that made her one of the most celebrated figures of her day. 26 photos. 2 maps.
Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry by Aliki Barnstone - The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry celebrates the unique spiritual life of women through a rich selection of poetry written over the past four thousand years, from thirty-six different languages and cultures. It ranges from verse by the first recorded poet, a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna (circa 2,300 BCE), to Anne Sexton; from early Buddhist nuns to Emily Dickinson; from Hildegard of Bingen to Tess Gallagher. Many of the translations are from distinguished authors and poets, such as Coleman Barks, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Kunitz, W. S. Merwin, Kenneth Rexroth, Arthur Waley, and Richard Wilbur. In this book (originally published as Voices of Light), the spiritual impulse is expressed broadly as a visionary quest toward self-realization, as well as the desire for union with God, with the source of divine light, with a mystic lover, or with the source of nature. Many of the poets here also remind us that the spiritual is within everyone and unites us through empathy with the suffering and joy of others—a poetry of witness. Contributors include: Anne Bradstreet, Sappho, Sylvia Plath, Hildegard of Bingen, Yosano Akiko, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tess Gallagher, Anne Sexton, Beatrice of Nazareth, Carolyn Forché, Mary: Mother of Jesus, Denise Levertov, Emily Dickinson, H.D., Linda Hogan, Charlotte Brontë, Louise Erdrich, Lucille Clifton, Anna Akhmatova, Marianne Moore, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Praxilla, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and many others.
Sharon Salzberg's Homepage - Insight Meditation Society
http://www.dharma.org/teachers/sharon/index.htm
Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel by Keith Dowman, Eva Van Dam (Illustrator), Trinley Norbu Rinpoche, Stag-Sam
Soeng Hyang (Barbara Rhodes) Zen Master - teachers of the Kwan Um School Spiritual Alchemy for Women (back button disabled) teaching of Taoist master Cao Zhenjie
http://www.kwanumzen.com/teachers/teachers-body.html#seong-hyangSpring from Early Japanese Women's Poetry
http://buddhism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A//pages.nyu.edu/~sw4/RaihaiWomen.htmlSongs of the Shamannes poems by Princess Nukata Songs of the Turtle (back button disabled) poems by Japanese Buddhist nun
http://buddhism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A//pages.nyu.edu/~sw4/RaihaiWomen.html
Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun by Ani Pachen, Adelaide Donnelley (Foreword), Richard Gere (Preface), Dalai Lama - Born in 1933 as the only child of a Tibetan village chieftain in the eastern province of Kham, Pachen refused an arranged marriage in hope of leading a monastic life. As Chinese troops hardened their grip on Tibet in 1958, she assumed her father's role upon his death, helping to lead the Tibetan resistance until her capture by the Chinese in 1960. Told to confess her crimes against the Chinese army and that if she didn't yield she would die, the Tibetan stood her ground. "When our time comes, each of us dies. There is nothing we can do," she explains. Although hundreds of thousands of Tibetans were killed along with many wild animals (to teach Tibetans to surrender their "superstitious" reverence of living things), Pachen was imprisoned for 21 years instead. Near starvation, she would rejoice if she found a worm to eat in the soil that she worked at labor camps. (One prisoner died from gouging out the innards of a dead horse buried in the field and consuming them, feces and all.) Asked what saved her, she replied, "The wish to see His Holiness," the Dalai Lama. As Pachen, who was released in 1980, concludes in an account that is more notable for its wrenching drama and its author's courage than for the style in which it is told, "As for me, the story will go like this: She led her people to fight against the Chinese.... She worked to save the ancient spiritual teachings. When I die, just my story will be left." Agent, Eileen Cope of Barbara Lowenstein Associates; foreign rights sold in the U.K., Italy, Germany and Holland; 7-city author tour. (Feb.) --Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Sunyana Graef founder and teacher of the Vermont Zen Center
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Taitaku Pat Phelan - of the Chapel Hill Zen Center Takabatake Shikibu Kyoto (back button disabled) waka poet
http://www.intrex.net/chzg/patsbio.htmTantric Praise of the Goddess by Jalaja Bonheim
http://buddhism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A//pages.nyu.edu/~sw4/RaihaiWomen.htmlTara - Female Buddha by Jhampa Shaneman
http://www.geocities.com/zennun12_8/tara2.html
Tara the Feminine Divine by Bokar Rinpoche - Tara, the most famous female deity in Tibetan Buddhism, is a personification of the Prajnaparamita and a mother dedicated to protecting her followers. Bokar Rinpoche presents the various aspects of Tara and the origin of her tantra, relates contemporary examples of her benevolent activity, provides an explanation of her praise, offers instruction for devotional practice, and discusses remarkable women in Indian and Tibetan Buddism. An extensive iconography completes the text.
Taraloka - a Buddhist women's community and Retrat Center
http://www.taraloka.org.uk/
Thai Women in Buddhism by Chatsumarn Kabilsingh
Thubten Chodron's Home Page, Venerable
http://www.thubtenchodron.org/
Tibetan Art of Parenting: From Before Conception Through Early Childhood by Anne Hubbell Maiden, Edie Farwell (Contributor) - "Provides a fascinating, invaluable context for understanding our desires for the best possible childbirth experiences. Well researched and clearly written. -Elizabeth Davis, C.P.M., author of Heart and Hands -- A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
Tibetan Goddess Tara & Kuan Yin stories of Buddhist goddesses of compassion - http://buddhism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A//pages.nyu.edu/~sw4/RaihaiWomen.html
Tibetan Nuns Project
http://www.tnp.org/
Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism by June Campbell
Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism by Sandy Boucher - Boucher's excellent, sometimes provocative discussion of the intersection of feminism and Buddhist practice in America.
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Tz'u Songs of Li Qingzhao poems
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Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives by Nancy Auer Falk, Rita M. Gross - With thoroughly integrated readings and original introductions, UNSPOKEN WORLDS provides an illustration of cross-cultural patterns in women's religious lives. Carefully selected works writings by eminent scholars have been judiciously edited by Falk and Gross to weave them into a coherent whole that evolves from simple, vivid portraits of individual women to analyses of complete systems.
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Vajrayogini: Her Visualization, Rituals, & Forms (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism) by Elizabeth English - This book sheds light on tantric sadhana meditation and includes translations of material never before available in English.
The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival by Adhe Tapontsang, Joy Blakeslee, Ama Adhe, Dalai Lama - book
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Walking on Lotus Flowers: Buddhist Women Living, Loving and Meditating by Martine Batchelor - book
Western Buddhist Nuns: A New Phenomenon in an Ancient Tradition by Ven. Thubten Chodron
http://www.thubtenchodron.org/BuddhistNunsMonasticLife/western_buddhist_nuns.htmlWomen Acquiring the Essence by Sensei Wendy Egyoku Nakao
http://www.zencenter.org/news/DharmaTalks/WomenAcquiringTheEssence.htmWomen Active in Buddhism - by Women Active in Buddhism
http://lhamo.tripod.com/Women Crookback & the Way of the Sage from Chuang Tzu
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Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns by Paula Kane Robinson Arai - In this study, based on both historical evidence and ethnographic data, Paula Arai shows that nuns were central agents in the foundation of Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century. They were active participants in the Soto Zen sect, and have continued to contribute to the advancement of the sect to the present day. Drawing on her fieldwork among the Soto nuns, Arai demonstrates that the lives of many of these women embody classical Buddhist ideals. They have chosen to lead a strictly disciplined monastic life over against successful careers and the unconstrained contemporary secular lifestyle. In this, and other respects, they can be shown to stand in stark contrast to their male counterparts.
Women Masters in the Tai Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell
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Women of Wisdom by Tsultrim Allione (editor), Chogyam Trungpa - Tsultrim Allione is one of the first American women to be ordained a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. But blazing a trail for Buddhist women in the West required models of great women practitioners. In the first book of its kind, Allione brings together the biographies of six women mystics in this strong but little known Tibetan tradition. Make that seven women, as Allione expands her own spiritual autobiography into 80 pages in this new printing. The dakini principle, the principle of feminine transformation, pervades each of these stories. A woman is beaten by her husband and father-in-law and has her son taken from her but later comes face-to-face with the boddhisattva Tara and becomes a great teacher. A wife who has always dreamed of practicing the dharma splits from her husband and travels the land receiving teachings. A poor cow herder is given a long-hidden sacred text and becomes a dakini herself. A spiritual biography embodies a teaching, and these stories enchant while transmitting wisdom. --Brian Bruya
Women Teachers in Buddhism
http://www.sakyadhita.org/teachers.html
Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahayana Tradition by Dianna M. Paul, Frances Wilson (Photographer) 333 pages, 2nd edition (May 1985)
Women in Buddhism by Patti Nakai - Part One: Prajapati, the First Buddhist Nun
http://www.livingdharma.org/Living.Dharma.Articles/WomenInBuddhism1.htmlWomen in Buddhism - Past, Present & Future
http://campross.crosswinds.net/women.htmlWomen in the Footsteps of the Buddha by Kate Blackstone
http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/asianstudies/publications/quarterly/98aprild.html
Women On The Buddhist Path by Martine Batchelor - 'The women and men who read this book can take great heart. Martine Batchelor has recorded unique and beautiful voices of feminine Dharma. These awakenings in the midst of snow caves, family life, arts and austerity, intimacy and celibacy, bring alive the blessings and true medicine of the Buddha.' Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry 'Here is teaching with a difference, for it is from a woman's point of view. Many of the teachers are remarkable nuns, and their advice is both creative and profound. This is a book not to be missed by any Buddhist.' Anne Bancroft, author of Women in Search of the Sacred 'Here wisdom and practice come alive with concrete, idiosyncratic experience -- no mystification here and no nonsense, just the quiet excitement of liberated voices.' Joanna Macy, author of World as Love, World as Self
Women Under Primitive Buddhism (RAP) by I.B. Horner - An attempt to present the position of the laywomen and the almswomen in historical focus. Here, for the first time, we read of women of sincere aspirations and earnest will, seeking the more, the better, in life.
A Woman's Book of Zen by Anonymous (Editor), Lesley Ehlers (Illustrator)
Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women -- Tradition, Revision, Renewal by Ellison Banks Findly - "This is the book that every course on Buddhism and gender needs: it's a well-balanced blend of historical studies with contemporary pieces on modern women's contributions to the changing face of Buddhism. No other book offer such a rich mix of Buddhist practitioners from such diverse Buddhist traditions speaking such a wide range of topics. Especially interesting are topics seldom covered elsewhere, such as the selections on art and health issues." -- Karen Lang, University of Virginia
Women's Liberation - Four Dharma Teachers interview in the Shambhala Sun
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma3/womlib.htmlWorld Buddhists Affirm Equality of Women
http://www.buddhanet.net/nuns_ord.htm
World As Lover, World As Self by Joanna R. Macy, Thich Nhat Hanh - This overview of Joanna Macy's innovative work combines deep ecology, general systems theory, and the Buddha's teachings on interdependent co-arising. A blueprint for social change, World as Lover, World as Self shows how we can reverse the destructive attitudes that threaten our world.
The World of Buddhism: Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture by Heinz Bechert (Editor), Richard Gombrich (Editor) - book
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You're Becoming a What?: Living as a Western Buddhist Nun by Ven. Thubten Chodron
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A Zen Romance: One Woman's Adventures in a Monastery by Deborah Boliver Boehm - When Deborah Boehm struck out for Kyoto as an exchange student in the 1960s, she often told many of her friends who practiced the "dull and pretentious" ways of Zen Buddhism that she hoped to "get away from Zen." Upon her arrival in Japan, however, she found herself living in a room on the grounds of an ancient Zen monastery. While she at first expresses mild disappointment at finding herself among Zen monks, she is soon won over to their ways, and they to hers, through participation in regular study and communal meals with the monks. Boehm so endears herself to the monks that she is invited to be the first foreigner to participate in the O-Zesshin, a week of intensive meditation. Yet, Boehm is taken with more than the monk's religious ways; she is also attracted sexually to one of the monks, and the book opens with one of her erotic dreams about this teacher. While the asceticism of Zen generally excludes the passion of sex, Boehm transforms her erotic desire into a passionate prose that glorifies the spiritual dimensions of Zen Buddhism. Boehm's memoir is a rich combination of the eroticism of the Thousand and One Nights and the spiritual revelation of a Zen koan. --Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Zen Seeds: Reflection's of a Female Priest by Patricia Daien Bennage
Zen , Women, and Buddhism
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