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The First Free Women : Poems of The Early Buddhist Nuns

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boulder : Shambhala Publications, 2020Description: xxii, 137 pages ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9781611807769
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BQ1452.E5W45
Summary: This new and captivating translation of the Therigatha (Verses of the Elder Buddhist Nuns) is a modern rendition of classic stories from the very first Buddhist nuns. Reflecting on their lives and revelations, these women wrote countless poems as they embraced their new lives as nuns. Heartwarming, enlightening, and sometimes tough in all the right ways, these poems have now been translated and adapted to reach a modern audience
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This new and captivating translation of the Therigatha (Verses of the Elder Buddhist Nuns) is a modern rendition of classic stories from the very first Buddhist nuns. Reflecting on their lives and revelations, these women wrote countless poems as they embraced their new lives as nuns. Heartwarming, enlightening, and sometimes tough in all the right ways, these poems have now been translated and adapted to reach a modern audience

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