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Women of Wisdom by Tsultrim Allione
(paperback) $16.95
Contains inspiring biographies of six realized Tibetan yoginis,
including the life of Ayu Khadro the 116-year-old treasure revealer
of the Simhamuka Sadhana. Includes a lengthy preface and biographical
information about the author's life as a Buddhist nun, mother, and
lay practitioner. This new edition published in 2000 includes a
forty page addendum to the preface.
Buy from our bookstore at bookstore@taramandala.org
or 970-264-6098.
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The
Bond Between Women by China Galland
Introduces us to the stories and myths of women who are towers
of strength, inspiration and hope. Reads like a novel.
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Earthwalking Skydancers by Leila Castle
This collection gathers together women writing about spiritual initiation,
identity, and transformation while on pilgrimage to sacred places
throughout the world.
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Feminine
Ground by Janice Willis
In critical and provocative essays, six western women scholars and
practitioners explore issues of women and the feminine in Tibet.
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Hidden
Spring: A Buddhist Women Confronts Cancer by Sandy Boucher
In vivid and unflinching prose, Boucher describes her year-long encounter
with cancer and reveals how meditation, an understanding of Buddhist
principals, and her spiritual outlook prepared her to meet the mental
and physical challenges of the illness.
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Longing
for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna by China Galland
Part spiritual pilgrimage, part call-to-action and part recovery journal,
this book chronicals China Galland's ten-year global journey to pilgrimage
sites and power vortexes looking for the dark goddess in her various
guises, both legendary and real.
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Opening
the Lotus by Sandy Boucher
Through personal anecdotes and lively explanations Sandy presents
a female prespective on fundamental Buddhist teachings such as compassion,
detachment, and enlightenment. Includes a directory of women teachers
in the U.S., Canada and abroad.
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Passionate
Enlightenment by Miranda Shaw
Presents extensive new evidence of outspoken and independent female
founders of the Tantric movement and their creative role in shaping
sacred sexuality.
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Meetings
with Remarkable Women by Lenore Friedman
Celebrates the flowering of women in American Buddhism. Lenore Friedman
profiles seventeen distinguished female teachers who have taught in
the United States. The women she writes about vary in background,
personality and form of teaching, but together they represent the
growing influence of women in American Buddhism.
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Sky
Dancer by Keith Dowman
This biography of Yeshe Tsogyal, consort of Padmasambhava, the most
famous of the enlightened women of Tibet, is one of the few writings
that present the spiritual practices and evolution of female aspirants.
Women are shown in an eminent position, and a path of practice is
presented for initiates toemulate.
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