Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781570624742)

This book celebrates the flowering of women in American Buddhism. Lenore Friedman set out to explore this phenomenon by interviewing some of the remarkable women who were teaching Buddhism in the United States. The seventeen women she writes about vary in background, personality, and form of teaching. Together the represent the growing presence and influence of women teachers in America--a development that will surely affect Buddhism in the West for years to come. This revised edition includes a new section describing developments in these women's lives and work since the book's first publication in 1987. Teachers include: Toni Packer, Maurine Stuart, Pema Chr, Joko Beck, Ruth Denison, Bobby Rhodes, Jiyu Kennett, Sharon Salzberg, Karuna Dharma, Joanna Macy, Gesshin Prabhasa Dharma, Sonja Margulies, Yvonne Rand, Jacqueline Mandell, Colleen Schmitz, Ayya Khema, and Tsering Everest.

Author: Lenore Friedman
ISBN-10: 1570624747
ISBN-13: 9781570624742
Publisher: Shambhala
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2000
Pages: 380
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.14w x 0.97d