In Search of Buddha's Daughters: The Hidden Lives and Fearless Work of Buddhist Nuns
Mar 2016 · The Experiment
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"Seamlessly narrated, this book reveals the varied paths available to women seeking to dedicate their lives to Buddhist practice" ( Buddhadharma).
They come to the monastic Buddhist life from every faith and career: a policewoman, a princess, a Bollywood star, a violinist. Out of the public eye, despite hardship and even persecution, they vow to seek enlightenment in a world full of noise.
Who are these women? What motivates them, and what stands in their way? Award-winning journalist Christine Toomey "travels around the world staying with nuns from Burma to California, drawing the reader inside their unexpectedly fascinating lives" (Mara Hvistendahl, The Wall Street Journal). She encounters unforgettable nuns who reveal the blessings—and perils—of carrying a twenty-year tradition into the twenty-first century. Often denied equal status with monks, they are nonetheless devoted—to their faith, and to change.
"[An] ambitious and thoughtful book . . . Toomey paints vivid portraits of women who are emboldened in the face of gender discrimination." — Tricycle
"Openness may explain why In Search of Buddha's Daughters is so much more than a sum of its parts. With a rich and compelling narrative voice, it is a text with the power to inspire a new perspective on how to live, how to view those around us, and how to find deep and lasting happiness in what we already possess." — Financial Times
They come to the monastic Buddhist life from every faith and career: a policewoman, a princess, a Bollywood star, a violinist. Out of the public eye, despite hardship and even persecution, they vow to seek enlightenment in a world full of noise.
Who are these women? What motivates them, and what stands in their way? Award-winning journalist Christine Toomey "travels around the world staying with nuns from Burma to California, drawing the reader inside their unexpectedly fascinating lives" (Mara Hvistendahl, The Wall Street Journal). She encounters unforgettable nuns who reveal the blessings—and perils—of carrying a twenty-year tradition into the twenty-first century. Often denied equal status with monks, they are nonetheless devoted—to their faith, and to change.
"[An] ambitious and thoughtful book . . . Toomey paints vivid portraits of women who are emboldened in the face of gender discrimination." — Tricycle
"Openness may explain why In Search of Buddha's Daughters is so much more than a sum of its parts. With a rich and compelling narrative voice, it is a text with the power to inspire a new perspective on how to live, how to view those around us, and how to find deep and lasting happiness in what we already possess." — Financial Times
"Seamlessly narrated, this book reveals the varied paths available to women seeking to dedicate their lives to Buddhist practice" ( Buddhadharma).
They come to the monastic Buddhist life from every faith and career: a policewoman, a princess, a Bollywood star, a violinist. Out of the public eye,...
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March 4, 2017
The author said " who they are, their experience of suffering, what motivates them to seek enlightenment, and what stands in their way. " Politics and religions should not mixed. Politics is about governing people while religions is about afterlife. In my opinion, The Lama should not be involved in politics. In religion, god or GOD is supreme and forever. What come will go, what happiness is sadness, day become night, good become bad and good again. It goes round and round. The Buddha's daughters sufferings, what sufferings??? Is it self inflicted? King comes and go or rather this government comes and goes away. Nothing in politics is permanence. In religion, the god or GOD is forever. They always say GOD BLESS YOU. They never say the government bless you.
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Christine Toomey is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported from over 60 countries worldwide. Speaking five languages, she has covered foreign affairs for the Sunday Times for more than 20 years, and her journalism has been syndicated globally. Previously based as a correspondent in Mexico City, Paris, Berlin, and elsewhere, she has twice won Amnesty International Awards for Magazine Story of the Year. She divides her time between London and a small medieval town in the Apennines of central Italy.
Christine Toomey is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported from over 60 countries worldwide. Speaking five languages, she has covered foreign affairs for the Sunday Times for more than 20 years, and her journalism has been syndicated globally. Previously based as a correspondent ...
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