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Title The first free women : poems of the early Buddhist nuns / Matty Weingast [translator], foreword by Bhikkhuni Anandabodhi.

Publication Info. Boulder : Shambhala, 2020.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2022014~S1
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Description xxii, 137 pages : illustration ; 19 cm.
Note Includes indexes.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Buddhist poetry -- Translations into English.
Pali poetry -- Translations into English.
Genre Poetry.
Added Author Weingast, Matty, translator.
Anandabodhi, Bhikkhuni, author of foreword.
Added Title Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Therīgāthā. Selections. English.
ISBN 9781611807769
161180776X
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