Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America
Buddhist Teachers In America
$51.11
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2000
Summary
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 they 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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781570624742 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1570624747 |
| Author: | Lenore Friedman |
| Publisher: | Shambhala |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 576g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 156mm x 230mm |
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Critics Review
“The teachers’own words and paraphrased thoughts are skillfully woven into Friedman’s lucid prose. The result is a collection of portraits that show how anyone can devote her/himself wholeheartedly to a spiritual path.” - San Francisco Chronicle
About The Author
Lenore Friedman
Lenore Friedman is a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley, California. She has been interested in Buddhism since the late 1950s and has practiced Buddhist meditation since the late 1960s.
Susan Moon is the editor of “Turning Wheel: The Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.” She is the author of “The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi” and coeditor, with Lenore Friedman, of “Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment.”
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