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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.
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.
Kakusan-ni (Japanese: 覚 （ かく ） 山 （ さん ） 尼 （ に ）, August 10, 1252 – November 15, 1306), also known as Kakusan Shidō (覚山志道), was a Japanese Buddhist nun and widow of Hōjō Tokimune (1251–1284), the eighth Shikken regent of the Kamakura shogunate. [1]
Taiken-mon'in no Horikawa in the Ogura Hyakunin isshu.. Lady Horikawa, attendant to Empress Taiken (待賢門院堀河, Taiken-mon'in no Horikawa, dates unknown) was a waka poet and Japanese noblewoman active in the Heian period.
Buddhist texts relate that Uppalavanna attained enlightenment less than two weeks after ordaining as a bhikkhuni. [1] [5] Shortly after becoming a nun it was Uppalavanna's turn to prepare the observance hall. While the other nuns were out, she lit a lamp and started sweeping the hall in accordance with her duties.
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.
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 ...
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