The first free women : poems of the early buddhist nuns /

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,...

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Auteur principal: Weingast, Matty (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:anglais
Publié: Boulder : Shambhala Publications, 2020.
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Résumé: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 and adapted to reach a modern audience
Description matérielle:xxii, 137 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN:9781611807769