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    For 24 hours during this promotion, readers can stock up on a large number of e-books for free. But Kindle offers free e-books all of the time. Simply search “Free books on Kindle” to find a ...

  3. Freda Bedi - Wikipedia

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    The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun (2017) by Vicki Mackenzie. Shambhala, ISBN 978-1-61180-425-6; Cave in the Snow: a Western woman's quest for enlightenment (1999) by Vicki Mackenzie. ISBN 1-58234-045-5. (A biography of Tenzin Palmo, also about Freda Bedi)

  4. Pariyatti (bookstore) - Wikipedia

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    It publishes, distributes, sells and donates books and media devoted to the teachings of the Buddha. It has been called "North America's leading source of books for students of the Theravadan tradition" by Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. [2] The Pariyatti bookstore (both online and brick-and-mortar) carries almost 900 print titles. [3]

  5. Lady Nijō - Wikipedia

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    She was a concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1271 to 1283, and later became a Buddhist nun. [1] After years of travelling, around 1304–07 she wrote a memoir, Towazugatari ("An Unasked-For Tale", commonly translated into English as The Confessions of Lady Nijō ), the work for which she is known today, and which is also the only substantial ...

  6. Cheng Yen - Wikipedia

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    She developed an interest in Buddhism as a young adult, ordaining as a Buddhist nun in 1963 under the well known proponent of humanistic Buddhism, master Yin Shun. After an encounter with a poor woman who had a miscarriage, and a conversation with Catholic nuns who talked about the various charity work of the Catholic Church , Cheng Yen founded ...

  7. Phoolko Aankhama - Wikipedia

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    Phoolko Aankhama (Nepali: फूलको आँखामा) is an autobiography by singer and writer Ani Choying Dolma. [1] It was published on April 21, 2008. Ani Choying Dolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun of Tibetan origin.

  8. Bhikkhunī - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, women can openly aspire to and practice for the highest level of spiritual attainment. Buddhism is unique among Indian religions in that the Buddha as founder of a spiritual tradition explicitly states in canonical literature that a woman is as capable of nirvana as men and can fully attain all four stages of enlightenment.

  9. Pema Chödrön bibliography - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of works published by Pema Chödrön (born 1936), buddhist nun and student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. An author and acharya, Chödrön was a senior teacher of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage Trungpa founded. She has been the resident teacher and founding director of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia since 1984. [1] [2] [3]