The First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha By Susan Murcott Parallax Press: Berkeley, 1991. 219 pp. $15.00 (paperback). The First Buddhist Women, Susan Murcott’s translations and commentary on the Therigatha, is a compelling and poignant record of the poems of the Therigatha. (Literally, Therigatha is “verses of old women,” but Murcott suggests that theri here translates not simply […]