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Gender Issues in Spiritual Life & enlightenmentbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Gender Issues in Spiritual Life and enlightenment.

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Women of Wisdom

Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics.

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Tsultrim Allione, Chögyam Trungpa (foreword)
2000
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Opening the Lotus: A Woman’s Guide to Buddhism

Part primer, part personal history, part guide to spiritual practice, this book opens the door to an understanding of Buddhist spirituality, which engages more and more Westerners as the millennium approaches.

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Sandy Boucher
1998
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The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns

Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all.

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Matty Weingast, Bhikkhuni Anandabodhi (foreword)
2020
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