The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns - Couverture souple

Weingast, Matty

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1645470563 ISBN 13 : 9781645470564

Editeur : Shambhala, 2021

Synopsis

An Ancient Collection Reimagined

Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the original Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all. The authors of the Therigatha were women from every kind of background, but they all shared a deep-seated desire for awakening and liberation.

In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast has reimagined this ancient collection and created an original work that takes his experience of the essence of each poem and brings forth in his own words the struggles and doubts, as well as the strength, perseverance, and profound compassion, embodied by these courageous women.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MATTY WEINGAST is co-editor of Awake at the Bedside and former editor of the Insight Journal at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. With almost two decades of medita­tion experience, Matty completed much of the work on The First Free Women while staying at Aloka Vihara Forest Monas­tery in northern California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shambhala
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1645470563
• ISBN 13: 9781645470564
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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