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Her life was profiled in the book Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie (ISBN 1-58234-045-5). Tenzin Palmo released a book containing some of her teachings: Reflections On A Mountain Lake: Teachings on Practical Buddhism (ISBN 1-55939-175-8). Three Teachings is a compilation of talks given by Tenzin Palmo in Singapore, in 1998.
The Theragāthā (Verses of the Elder Monks) is a Buddhist text, a collection of short poems in Pali attributed to members of the early Buddhist sangha. It is classified as part of the Khuddaka Nikaya, the collection of minor books in the Sutta Pitaka. A similar text, the Therigatha, contains verses attributed to early Buddhist nuns.
Yifa (Chinese: 依法, born 1959) is a Taiwanese lawyer, theologian, and writer who is the founder of the Woodenfish Foundation.She is a nun ordained in 1979 by Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist organization in Taiwan.
First Western woman to become a Buddhist nun in Bhutan Emma Slade , also known as Ani Pema Deki (born 16 July 1966), is a British yoga and meditation instructor, author, and charity founder best known for becoming the first Western woman to become a Buddhist nun in Bhutan .
Buddhist nun, politician In this Japanese name , the surname is Hōjō . Hōjō Masako ( 北条 政子 , 1157 – August 16, 1225) was a Japanese politician who exercised significant power in the early years of the Kamakura period , which was reflected by her contemporary sobriquet of the "nun shogun".
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 ...
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.
Myokyo-ni is the author of a number of books on Zen and Buddhism, including a translation of The Zen Teaching of Rinzai . She guided the translation of the Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp by Master Tōrei Enji , which was awarded the Culture Prize by the Japanese Translators' Association in 1991.