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  2. Fukuda Chiyo-ni - Wikipedia

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    Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田 千代尼, 1703 - 2 October 1775) or Kaga no Chiyo (加賀 千代女) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period and a Buddhist nun. [1] She is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku). Some of Chiyo's most notable works include "The Morning Glory", "Putting up my hair", and "Again the women".

  3. Category:Novels about nuns - Wikipedia

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    Novels about nuns, women who vow to dedicate their lives to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.

  4. Jakucho Setouchi - Wikipedia

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    Jakucho Setouchi [n 1] (15 May 1922 – 9 November 2021; born Harumi Mitani), [n 2] formerly known as Harumi Setouchi, [n 3] [1] was a Japanese Buddhist nun, writer, and activist. Setouchi wrote a best-selling translation of The Tale of Genji and over 400 fictional biographical and historical novels.

  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. Martine Batchelor - Wikipedia

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    Martine Batchelor (born 1953), a former Jogye Buddhist nun, is the author of several books on Buddhism currently residing in France.She and her husband, Stephen Batchelor, work mostly in the United Kingdom and occasionally in the United States.

  7. Uppalavanna - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist texts describe that she offered to perform this feat during the Miracle at Savatthi, but the Buddha refused and told her to wait for the right time to perform the feat. Uppalavanna performed the miracle four months later at Sankassa when the Buddha returned to earth after spending his rains-retreat in Tavatimsa Heaven .

  8. Ōtagaki Rengetsu - Wikipedia

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    Ōtagaki Rengetsu (大田垣 蓮月, 10 February 1791 – 10 December 1875) was a Buddhist nun who is widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets of the 19th century. She was also a skilled potter and painter and expert calligrapher.

  9. Marilyn Silverstone - Wikipedia

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    Shechen Monastery in 2016. Silverstone's conversion to Buddhist nun was said to have begun when she was a teenager suffering from the mumps. [3] She later explained that during this conventional childhood illness, she read Secret Tibet by Fosco Maraini and she said the book provided a key she long carried in her subconscious.