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Why You Should Know About Diane di Prima, the Beat Poet Decades Ahead of Her Time

By Corey Seymour — 2020

Diane di Prima didn’t confine herself to merely being a poet. Aside from authoring nearly four dozen books—poetry, prose, a fictionalized erotic memoir (Memoirs of a Beatnik)—di Prima was the Poet Laureate of San Francisco; a co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre; a professor at the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, the Naropa Institute, and at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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Tara, the First Feminist

Since becoming ordained four decades ago, Lama Tsultrim Allione has faced her share of challenges and sexism. Throughout it all, Tara’s vow to work for the benefit of all beings in a woman’s body has been a source of guidance and inspiration.

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Lama Tsultrim Allione
2016
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Feminism Awakens in Himalayan Buddhist Art and Meditation

Are Jetsunma, her nuns and artists achieving something truly radical and unprecedented at DGL? In the context of tradition-laden India, Nepal and Bhutan, they are. - G. Roger Denson

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G. Roger Denson
2015
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Waking Up to Patriarchy

You might think being a nun is very difficult and restrictive, but for them, ironically, it’s actually freedom from the alternative, which would be to get married, have a child every other year, work in the fields, work in the home, take care of their aged families, often while married to someone...

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Lion's Roar Staff
2016
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Tenzin Palmo: “There Is Nothing” a Woman Can’t Accomplish

“Reading my first book on Buddhism at 18 is what changed my life completely,” she’s said. When she was halfway through it, she announced: “I’m a Buddhist” — to which her mother replied, “Finish the book and we’ll talk about it!”

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Dominique Butet, Olivier Adam
2017
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