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Women in Buddhism

Explores the historical and modern role of women in Buddhism.

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	Passionate Enlightenment
	Women in Tantric Buddhism
	Shaw, Miranda
	Wisdom Price £16.96 (save 15%)
	Shaw presents substantial evidence against the historical view that tantric enlightenment is only for men. In her view, the tantric theory of the Pala...
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	Zen Seeds
	Reflections of a Buddhist Priest
	Aoyama, Shundo
	Wisdom Price £5.56 (save 20%)
	A female Soto Zen priest writes in plain words about the seeds of enlightenment to be found in everyday life. In this fascinating collection of essays she explains in a clear,...
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	Buddhist Women at the Time of the Buddha
	Lives of the Disciples
	Hecker, Hellmuth and Ayya Khema
	Wisdom Price £1.28 (save 5%)
	Brief stories of the lives of the foremost female disciples of the Buddha. Wheel...
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	Sisters in Solitude
	Two Traditions of Ethics for Buddhist Women
	Karma Lekshe Tsomo
	Wisdom Price £15.00 (save 20%)
	An investigation of the moral precepts and codes of everyday conduct by which ordinary women once regulated their lives. This comparative...
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	Tara the Liberator [New Edition]
	How to Free Your Mind
	Thubten Chodron
	Wisdom Price £14.39 (save 20%)
	Due October 2012. New edition. A basic introduction to the practice of Tara, the feminine embodiment of enlightenment, presented in a...
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	Buddhist View of Abortion
	Nyanasobhano Bhikkhu
	Wisdom Price £0.48 (save 5%)
	A Theravada Buddhist monk looks at the controverial subject of abortion. Bodhi Leaf...
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	Circle of Protection for the Unborn
	Jampa Thaye
	Wisdom Price £3.50
	A brief essay on a Buddhist view of contraception and...
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	Buddhism After Patriarchy
	A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism
	Gross, Rita
	Wisdom Price £21.25 (save 15%)
	This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its...
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	Feminine Ground
	Essays on Women and Tibet
	Willis, Janice Dean
	Wisdom Price £8.03 (save 33%)
	Thoughtful, critical and provocative essays by leading female writers on Tibet. They come together to explore and discuss the issues of women and the feminine in...
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	Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan
	LaFleur, William R
	Wisdom Price £19.76 (save 10%)
	Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? This provocative work...
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	Women in Early Buddhist Literature
	Horner, I B
	Wisdom Price £0.86 (save 5%)
	How women feature in the Pali canon. Wheel...
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	Family Planning and Birth Control in Buddhist Perspective
	Van Loon, Louis
	Wisdom Price £0.86 (save 5%)
	A brief essay. Bodhi Leaf...
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	Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns
	Jootla, Susan Elbaum
	Wisdom Price £1.62 (save 10%)
	A booklet exploring the inspirational poetry of the early Buddhist nuns. Wheel...
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	Dakini Power
	Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
	Haas, Michaela
	Wisdom Price £9.74 (save 35%)
	Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and...
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	Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha
	Struggle for Liberation in the Therigatha
	Blackstone, Kathryn R
	Wisdom Price £94.50 (save 10%)
	A detailed exploration of the quest for the liberation on the part of the early bhikkhunis via a study of...
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	Women Under Primitive Buddhism
	Laywomen and Almswomen
	Horner, I B
	Wisdom Price £4.50 (save 70%)
	An attempt to present the position of the laywoman and almswoman in historical focus, according to Theravada Buddhism. For the study of...
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	Position of Women in Buddhism
	Dewaraja, L S
	Wisdom Price £0.86 (save 5%)
	A brief look at the early role of women in the Buddhist societies of Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma. Wheel...
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	Turning the Wheel
	American Woman Creating the New Buddhism
	Boucher, Sandy
	Wisdom Price £27.00 (save 10%)
	d and expanded edition of an influential work chronicling the spiritual paths of Buddhist women in the United States. American women who practice...
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	Spirited Women
	Gender, Religion, & Cultural Identity in the Nepal Himalaya
	Watkins, Joanne C
	Wisdom Price £20.66 (save 10%)
	The traditional culture of the Nyishangba, a small group of Tibetan Buddhists from the Himalayan highlands of northern Nepal. Here...
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	Women in Buddhist Literature
	Law , Bimala Charan
	Wisdom Price £15.95
	A reprint of a study based on Pali Buddhist literature, originally published in...
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