Product Description: Eminent Buddhist Women reveals the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women through the centuries. Despite the Buddha's own egalitarian values, Buddhism as a religion has been dominated by men for more than two thousand years. With few exceptions, the achievements of Buddhist women have remained hidden or ignored...read more

Brings together historical, cultural, and Buddhist records to provide a detailed lineage of female Buddhist masters and teachers, revealing the contributions of women to the development of Buddhism throughout the world. Reprint.

A collection of Dharma teachings addresses issues of common concern to Buddhist practitioners from all traditions, drawing on the author's experiences as one of the first western women to be ordained as a Tibetian Buddhist nun. Original. (view table of contents)

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)