![](https://everydayzen.org/files/9713/7530/8944/FirstBuddhistWomen.jpg)
The First Buddhist Women
Poems and Stories of Awakening
Parallax Press 2006-02-14
ISBN 188837554X
Purchase the book on Amazon
![](https://everydayzen.org/themes/edz/images/url_blue.gif)
Purchase the book on Barnes and Noble
![](https://everydayzen.org/themes/edz/images/icons/url_blue.gif)
Find your local independent bookstore
![](https://everydayzen.org/themes/edz/images/icons/url_blue.gif)
Translations from the Therigatha of the lives and awakening poems of the women who practiced with the Buddha and were the first Buddhist nuns.