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Author:
Haas, Michaela, 1970-
Title:
Dakini power : twelve extraordinary women shaping the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West / Michaela Haas, PhD.
Edition:
First Edition.
Publisher:
Snow Lion,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Buddhist women--Biography.
Women teachers--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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:
1559394072 (pbk.)
9781559394079 (pbk.)
LCCN:
2012037891
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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