Dakini power : twelve extraordinary women shaping the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West /

Haas, Michaela, 1970-

Dakini power : twelve extraordinary women shaping the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West / Michaela Haas, PhD. - First Edition - xix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325).

Khandro Rinpoche: A Needle Compassionately Sticking Out of a Cushion -- Dagmola Sakya: From the Palace to the Blood Bank -- Tenzin Palmo (Diane Perry): Sandpaper for the Ego -- Sangye Khandro (Nanci Gay Gustafson): Enlightenment Is a Full-time Job -- Pema Chödrön (Deirdre Blomfield-Brown): Relaxing into Groundlessness -- Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel: A Wonder Woman Hermit -- Chagdud Khadro (Jane Dedman): Like Iron Filings Drawn to a Magnet -- Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Patricia Zenn): Surfing to Realization -- Thubten Chodron (Cherry Greene): A Rebel in Robes -- Roshi Joan Halifax: Fearless, Fierce, and Fragile -- Tsultrim Allione (Joan Rousmanière Ewing): The Enlightened Feminist -- Khandro Tsering Chödron: The Queen of Dakinis.

9781559394079 (pbk.)

2012037891


Buddhist women--Biography.
Women teachers--Biography.

BQ850 / .H33 2013

294.3/92309252 B