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Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha's Life

Product Description: A contemporary and provocative examination of the life of the Buddha highlighting the influence of women from his journey to awakening through his teaching career--based on overlooked or neglected stories from ancient source material...read more

By Wendy Garling

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9781611802658 | Shambhala Pubns, August 30, 2016, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A contemporary and provocative examination of the life of the Buddha highlighting the influence of women from his journey to awakening through his teaching career--based on overlooked or neglected stories from ancient source material.

In Search of Buddha's Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads

By Christine Toomey

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Hardcover:

9781615193264 | Experiment Llc, March 22, 2016, cover price $24.95

Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West

By H. H. the Seventeenth Karmapa (foreword by) and Haas

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9781559394079 | Snow Lion Pubns, April 9, 2013, cover price $19.95

Dignity and Discipline: The Evolving Role of Women in Buddhism

By Jampa Tsedroen (editor)

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9780861715886, titled "Dignity & Discipline: Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns" | Wisdom Pubns, May 1, 2010, cover price $18.95

Zen Women: Beyond Tea-ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho-masters

Product Description: This landmark presentation at last makes heard the centuries of Zen's female voices. Through exploring the teachings and history of Zen's female ancestors, from the time of the Buddha to ancient and modern female masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Grace Schireson offers us a view of a more balanced Dharma practice, one that is especially applicable to our complex lives, embedded as they are in webs of family relations and responsibilities, and the challenges of love and work...read more

By Miriam Levering (foreword by)

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9780861714759, titled "Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters" | Wisdom Pubns, October 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This landmark presentation at last makes heard the centuries of Zen's female voices.

Mother of Bliss: Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982

By Lisa Lassell Hallstrom

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9780195116472, titled "Mother of Bliss: Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982)" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 8, 1999, cover price $115.00

Paperback:

9780195116489, titled "Mother of Bliss: Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982)" | Oxford Univ Pr, February 15, 2008, cover price $21.95

Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India

Product Description: The essays in this collection address the problem of Hindu women's relationship to authority, both within and without the textual traditions of Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and English. The authors adopt a method of close textual and ethnographic reading, which results in some surprisingly new and subtle ways of interpreting older, more "classical" discourses, such as Veda and Mimamsa, as well as newer discourses, such as the RSS use of the Devimahatmya...read more

By Laurie Patton (editor)

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9780195134780 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 31, 2002, cover price $125.00

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9780195176605 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 30, 2016, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The essays in this collection address the problem of Hindu women's relationship to authority, both within and without the textual traditions of Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and English.

Daoism Handbook

By Livia Kohn

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Hardcover:

9789004112087 | Brill Academic Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $335.00

Paperback:

9780391042377 | Brill Academic Pub, December 28, 2004, cover price $124.00

Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism

By June Campbell

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Hardcover:

9780788156236 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1996, cover price $27.00

9780807614068 | 1 edition (George Braziller, April 1, 1996), cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9780807614914 | George Braziller, August 30, 2004, cover price $14.95

Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion

The author shares ruminations, meditations, prayers, chants, and stories about the Buddhist goddess who represents love, compassion, and understanding

By Sandy Boucher

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Hardcover:

9780807013403 | Beacon Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author shares ruminations, meditations, prayers, chants, and stories about the Buddhist goddess who represents love, compassion, and understanding

Paperback:

9780807013410 | Beacon Pr, May 12, 2000, cover price $18.00

Miscellaneous:

9780807013427 | Beacon Pr, April 19, 2001, cover price $25.00

Donors, Devotees, and the Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu

Product Description: Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C. Orr brings into focus the activities and identities of the temple women (devadasis) of medieval South India. This book shows how temple women's initiative and economic autonomy involved them in medieval temple politics and allowed them to establish themselves in roles with particular social and religious meanings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Leslie C. Orr

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9780195099621 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 9, 2000, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C.

Tradition and Liberation: The Hindu Tradition in the Indian Women's Movement

Product Description: This study examines the role of the Hindu tradition in the ideology and methodology of the Indian women's movement. By showing how leaders of the movement have restated aspects of the tradition, it provides some insight into the ways in which a women's movement can restate a religious tradition in a society where religion has been central to debate about the position of women and where opposition to the movement has been rationalized in terms of religion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Catherine A. Robinson

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9780312227180 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1999, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This study examines the role of the Hindu tradition in the ideology and methodology of the Indian women's movement.

9780700711437 | Routledge, March 1, 1999, cover price $178.00 | About this edition: The text examines the role of the Hindu tradition in the ideology and methodology of the Indian women's movement.

Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment

By Vicki MacKenzie

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9781582340456 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 1, 1999, cover price $23.00

Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations

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By Karma Lekshe Tsomo (editor)

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9780791441374 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $60.50

Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Englightenment

Relates the spiritual journey of one of the first Westerners to be ordained a Buddhist nun, and describes her efforts to reach enlightenment through twelve years of intense meditation in a remote cave in the Himalayas (view table of contents)

By Vicki MacKenzie

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9781582340043 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Relates the spiritual journey of one of the first Westerners to be ordained a Buddhist nun, and describes her efforts to reach enlightenment through twelve years of intense meditation in a remote cave in the Himalayas

Kuan Yin: Myths and Revelations of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion

By Man-Ho Kwok, Martin Palmer and Jay Ramsay

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9781855384170 | Thorsons Pub, February 1, 1998, cover price $18.95

Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment

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By Lenore Friedman (editor) and Susan Ichi Su Moon (editor)

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9781570623240 | Shambhala Pubns, October 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women

By Thomas F. Cleary (editor)

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9781556432224 | Reprint edition (North Atlantic Books, November 1, 1996), cover price $14.95

Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature

By Liz Wilson

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Hardcover:

9780226900537 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $101.00

Paperback:

9780226900544 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $32.00

Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist Monasitc Ethics for Women : A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Dharmagupta and the Tibetan Mulasarvastivada Bhiksuni pra

Product Description: This study is an investigation of the moral precepts and codes of everyday conduct by which ordained women regulated their lives. It takes as its basis the Bhiká¹£uá¹Ä« PrÄtimoká¹£a SÅ«tras of the Dharmagupta school, preserved in Chinese translation, and the MÅ«lasarvÄstivÄda school, preserved in Tibetan translation...read more

By Karma Lekshe Tsomo

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9780791430897 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: This study is an investigation of the moral precepts and codes of everyday conduct by which ordained women regulated their lives.

"Because It Gives Me Peace of Mind": Ritual Fasts in the Religious Lives of Hindu Women

Product Description: Explores the history and nature of vrats (ritual fasts) in text and practice, and the roles these rites play in the lives of Hindu women in North India.This is the first book-length study that explores the history and nature of vratsotive fasting rites--the role these rites play in the religious lives of Hindu women in North India, and the meanings these women attribute to them...read more

By A. M. Pearson

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9780791430378 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $56.50 | About this edition: Explores the history and nature of vrats (ritual fasts) in text and practice, and the roles these rites play in the lives of Hindu women in North India.

Paperback:

9780791430385 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $31.95

Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism

By Miranda Shaw

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Hardcover:

9780691033808 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $52.50

Paperback:

9780691010908 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 18, 1995, cover price $35.00

Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet

Product Description: Six Western women scholars and practitioners explore issues of women and the feminine in Tibet. These critical and provocative essays discuss female role models, the nun's life, and gender and role identity as these manifested in Tibet...read more

By Janice D. Willis (editor)

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9781559390521 | Snow Lion Pubns, October 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Six Western women scholars and practitioners explore issues of women and the feminine in Tibet.

Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra

Product Description: Feldhaus examines the role of certain 'domestic' values in the religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra, a large region of western India. Feldhaus draws both on written religious texts and on a wide range of oral, iconographic, and ritual materials gathered in the course of field work in India...read more

By Anne Feldhaus

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9780195091229 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 11, 1995, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: Feldhaus examines the role of certain 'domestic' values in the religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra, a large region of western India.

Paperback:

9780195092837 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 11, 1995, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Rivers in India are commonly associated with certain worldly religious values: wealth, beauty, long life, good health, food, love, and the birth of children.

Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries : A Translation of the Pi-Ch'Iu-Ni Chuan

By Pao-Chang, Shih Pao-Ch'Ang and Kathryn Ann Tsai (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780824815417 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $39.00

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