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Poems of the First Buddhist Women
Language: en
Pages: 193
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Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-23 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The Therīgāthā is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally collected as part of the Pali canon o
The First Free Women
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Matty Weingast
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-11 - Publisher: Shambhala Publications

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An Ancient Collection Reimagined Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhi
Therigatha
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors:
Categories: Buddhist poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Murty Classical Library of India

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The Therīgāthā, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. These women were t
First Buddhist Women
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Susan Murcott
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-02-09 - Publisher: Parallax Press

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First Buddhist Women is a readable, contemporary translation of and commentary on the enlightenment verses of the first female disciples of the Buddha. The book
Daughters of Emptiness
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Beata Grant
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The author has performed a great service in recovering and translating the enchanting poems and talks of twenty nuns from the period 1600 to 1850.