Research Catalog

Title

Dakini power : twelve extraordinary women shaping the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West / Michaela Haas, PhD.

Author

Haas, Michaela, 1970-

Publication

Boston : Snow Lion, 2013.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xix, 325 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Many of us dream of exchanging our day-to-day responsibilities for a heartfelt life full of purpose, but few of us ever get around to doing something about it. The women featured in Dakini Powerandmdash;contemporary teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, both Westerners and Asians, who teach in the Westandmdash;are the exception.

Subject

• RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
• Buddhist women > Biography
• Women teachers > Biography
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
• RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan
• Buddhist women
• Women teachers

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Khandro Rinpoche: A Needle Compassionately Sticking Out of a Cushion -- Dagmola Sakya: From the Palace to the Blood Bank -- Tenzin Palmo (Diane Perry): Sandpaper for the Ego -- Sangye Khandro (Nanci Gay Gustafson): Enlightenment Is a Full-time Job -- Pema Chödrön (Deirdre Blomfield-Brown): Relaxing into Groundlessness -- Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel: A Wonder Woman Hermit -- Chagdud Khadro (Jane Dedman): Like Iron Filings Drawn to a Magnet -- Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Patricia Zenn): Surfing to Realization -- Thubten Chodron (Cherry Greene): A Rebel in Robes -- Roshi Joan Halifax: Fearless, Fierce, and Fragile -- Tsultrim Allione (Joan Rousmanière Ewing): The Enlightened Feminist -- Khandro Tsering Chödron: The Queen of Dakinis.

ISBN

• 9781559394079 (pbk.)
• 1559394072 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2012037891
• 40022149096

OCLC

• 795758168
• SCSB-10766603

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library