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Bibliography on Women and Buddhism Compiled by Kate Crosby, 2004 Bibliography on Women and Buddhism Compiled by Kate Crosby, 2004. Revised by Karma Lekshe Tsomo, 2010 http://www.sakyadhita.org [email protected] Historical Barnes, Nancy J. “Striking a Balance: Women and Images of Women in Early Chinese Buddhism.” In Women, Religion, and Social Change, eds. Yvonne Y. Haddad and Ellison B. Findley. Albany: State University of New York, 1985. Barua, Rabindra Bijay. The Theravada Sangha. Dacca: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1978. “Biyagama Nunnery Second Anniversary Meeting.” The Buddhist, August 1938, 74. “Biyagama Upasika Aramaya.” The Buddhist, September 1940, 74. Bloss, Lowell W. “Attitudes toward Women and the Feminine in Early Buddhism.” In Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender. Edited by Edited by José Ignacio Cabezón. Albany: State University of New York, 1992, pp. 3-36. “The Celebration of the Sanghamitta Festival.” The Buddhist 9 (December 1916): 4. Chakrabarty, Haripada. Asceticism in Ancient India in Brahmanical Buddhist Jaina and Ajibika Societies from the Earliest Times to the Period of Sankaracarya. Punthi Pustak, 1993. Chamberlayne, John. “The Development of Kuan Yin: Chinese Goddess of Mercy.” Numen 9 (January 1962): 45-52. Chappell, David W., ed. “Monasticism East and West.” Buddhist Christian Studies 12 (1992): 123-58. Church, Cornelia Dimmitt. “Temptress, Housewife, Nun: Women’s Role in Early Buddhism.” Anima 2 (1975): 53-58. Cogan, Gina. “Precepts at Enshoji: The Rules of a Seventeenth-Century Japanese Amadera.” In Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Women’s Voices Across Generations. Edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. Taipei: Yuan Chuan Press, 2004, pp. 237-40. Conze, Edward. “The Iconography of Prajnaparamita.” In Thirty Years of Buddhist Studies: Selected Essays of Edward Conze, 243-60. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1968. de Souza, Canavarro. Order of the Sanghamitta Buddhist Sisterhood. 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Early Buddhist Monachism. New Delhi: Manoharlal Publishers, 1984. Dutt, Sukumar. Early Buddhist Monachism: 600 B.C.-100 B.C. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, 1924. “The Education of Buddhist Girls.” The Buddhist, 11 March 1916, 4. “The Education of Buddhist Girls.” The Buddhist, 18 November 1916, 1. Falk, Nancy Auer. “The Case of the Vanishing Nuns: The Fruits of Ambivalence in Ancient Buddhism.” In Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Religious Lives in Non-western Cultures, eds. Nancy Auer Falk and Rita Gross. New York: Harper and Row, 1980, pp. 206-24. Falk, Nancy Auer. “An Image of Women in Old Buddhist Literature: The Daughters of Mara.” In Women and Religion. Edited by Judith Plaskow and June Arnold. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1974, pp.105-12. “Female Education.” The Buddhist, July 10, 1891, 229. Fister, Patricia. Art by Buddhist Nuns: Treasures from the Imperial Convents of Japan. New York: Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, 1988. Fister, Patricia, et al. Amamonzeki: A Hidden Heritage: Treasures of the Japanese Buddhist Convents. Tokyo: University Art Museum, 2009. Freese, Roseanne. “Tracing the Roots of the Bhiksuni Tradition.” In Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Women’s Voices Across Generations. Edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. Taipei: Yuan Chuan Press, 2004, pp. 188-210. Page 2 Bibliography on Women and Buddhism Compiled by Kate Crosby, 2004. Revised by Karma Lekshe Tsomo, 2010 http://www.sakyadhita.org [email protected] Grant, Beata. Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-century China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008. Grant, Beata. “Female Holder of the Lineage: Linji Chan Master Zhiyuan Xinggang (1597-1654).” Late Imperial China 17:2 (1996) 51-76. Grant, Beata. “The Red Cord Untied: Buddhist Nuns in 18th Century China.” In Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations. Edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. 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