The first free women : poems of the early Buddhist nuns
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
294.38232/FIRST
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PUBLISHED
Boulder : Shambhala, 2020
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxii, 137 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781611807769, 161180776X :, 9781611807769
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes indexes
"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 to reach a modern audience"--