Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women - Various - Benjamin

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Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women, Various, translated from Pali by Charles Hallisey, 2015, India, POETRY

"To enter the world of the Therigatha is to enter not only into the world of Buddhism at its beginning, but also into the world of the first Buddhist nuns. The bhikkhuni (fully ordained female monastics, or nuns), as scholars and practitioners of Buddhism know well, declined and disappeared within every school and lineage of Buddhism with the exception of the Dharmaguptaka (the lineage that Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese Buddhists belong): The Therigatha, therefore, is not only a record of early Buddhism and early Buddhist nuns, but also a window into the world of fully ordained female monastics in Buddhism (as opposed to female novices, ascetics, and householders)."

(Benjamin, review)

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