Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns
Subtitle: Biographies As History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780199459070
Subjects: Women in buddhism; Buddhism, india
Description: This title sheds light on the lives of early Buddhist women in India, seen through biographical accounts preserved within the Buddhist tradition for over a thousand years. The biographies reveal strong female characters, who overcame hardships to become exemplar practitioners, depicting inspirational women, born within traditional societies, whose stories can inspire generations of women to come.