[PDF.79yz] Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun

Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun

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 | #3169257 in eBooks |  2004-07-08 |  2004-07-08 | File type: PDF

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting view of feminism|By Linda Amiga|The author takes a rare written story by a Tibetan
Buddhist nun several hundred years old and gives a glimpse into the culture of the time especially the status of women.The first part of the book is analysis and history, with the last part , only a few pages long,the actual writing. He has done a good job of filling out the pict| ||"A significant contribution toward filling the lacuna of research on female-authored Himalayan Buddhist sources."--Sarah H. Jacoby, The Journal of Asian Studies||"This book is a must-read for specialists and an appropriate text for undergraduates in

Himalayan Hermitess is a vivid account of the life and times of a Buddhist nun living on the borderlands of Tibetan culture. Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729) spent her life in Dolpo, the highest inhabited region of the Nepal Himalayas. Illiterate and expressly forbidden by her master to write her own life story, Orgyan Chokyi received divine inspiration, defied tradition, and composed one of the most engaging autobiographies of the Tibetan literary tradition.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun   |  Kurtis R. Schaeffer. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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