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Five Powerful Poems Inspired by Some of the First Buddhist Women
The First Free Women: Original Poetry Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, republished in June of this year, gives new life to poems in the Therigatha.
The First Free Women: Original Poetry Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, republished in June of this year, gives new life to poems in the Therigatha.
“A life of debts I could never repay / pushing in on all sides / like the weight of the sea.”
Early Buddhist nuns stand up to the demon Mara, in this context a symbol of aggression and misogyny, and face him down.
And why it’s high time to break through it
Andrew Olendzki on the verses of courtesan and poet Ambapali
Terigatha, poems of the sisters
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