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- Title: Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 187 KB
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Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. By KURTIS SCHAEFFER. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. viii + 220. $42. In Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun, Kurtis Schaeffer translates, contextualizes, and analyzes what is most likely the earliest female religious autobiography in Tibetan literature; it is also a rare document in Buddhist literature. Women in premodern Buddhist societies did not--as a rule--write, and particularly not about their own lives. While Tibetan literature abounds with biographical literature authored by men--we know of several thousand male religious biographies and around 150 autobiographies so far--less than a handful of religious autobiographies by women have come to light.