Mahapajapati

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The Aunt with a Grandmotherly Mind

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By Pamela Weiss

Dec 04, 2020

Awakening the Fierce Feminine

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Nov 2020

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The first bhikkhuni

By Laura Wein

Sep 16, 2016

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Restoring Zen’s female lineage

by Mary Fowles | illustrations by Barbara Cooper

Summer 2014

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