TY - BOOK AU - Haas,Michaela TI - Dakini power: twelve extraordinary women shaping the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West SN - 9781559394079 (pbk.) AV - BQ850 .H33 2013 U1 - 294.3/92309252B 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Boston PB - Snow Lion KW - Buddhist women KW - Biography KW - Women teachers N1 - 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 ER -