Book description
A âfascinating and inspiringâ celebration of womenâs spirituality and the female mystics of Tibetan Buddhismânow featuring an updated and expanded author autobiography (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics. These stories ofâŠ
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This book is a wonderful collection of the lives of six Tibetan female mystics, brought together by the American Lama Tsultrim Allione, the emanation of the renowned 11th-century Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, and one of the few women Lamas in the world today. The book includes an extensive autobiographical preface and introduction in which Lama Tultrum Allione shares her own story and experience of the difficulties and triumphs of women in Tibetan Buddhism, and of women pursuing a spiritual life in the West with candid honesty. The stories of these remarkable women's pasts and brought together in this book offerâŠ
From Elles' list on biographies of Western Buddhist women.
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