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Title: Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America (Revised and Updated)

Author: Lenore Friedman

ISBN: 9781570624742

Publisher: Shambhala

Published: 2000

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Revised

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : 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 Chödrön, 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.