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First Buddhist Women: Poems and Stories of Awakening
Parallax Press 2006-02-14
ISBN 188837554X
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A very important book. Translation and discussion of the poems of the Therigata, written by the first women to be ordained as Buddhist monastics during the time of the Buddha.