The lives of Buddhism’s women ancestors are too often whispers of a forgotten past. This special collection of essays, stories, and poems brings their lion’s roar back to life.
Under the Autumn Moon
Grace Jill Shireson on the life, art, and poetic inspiration of the Zen nun Otagaki Rengetsu, a woman “humbled by life’s blows as well as its beauty.”
The Many Lives of Yeshe Tsogyal
Holly Gayley discusses the power of Padmasambhava’s foremost disciple and consort, Yeshe Tsogyal, and the life of one of her modern emanations.
To Women of the Way
In these seventeenth-century poems, translated from the Chinese by scholar Beata Grant, women Chan teachers and senior students pay homage to the women who taught and inspired them.
An Unlikely Dharma Warrior
Miriam Levering on the life of Miaozong, a laywoman turned abbess who stood her ground in dharma battles with some of the great Chan masters of her day.
Longing to Ordain
Bhikkhuni Sudhamma traces the origins of Buddhist ordination for women to Queen Anula, Sri Lanka’s first Buddhist nun.
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