Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet

by Janice D. Willis (Editor)

Six Western women scholars and practitioners explore issues of women and the feminine in Tibet. These critical and provocative essays discuss female role models, the nun's life, and gender and role identity as these manifested in Tibet. Contributors include Jan Willis, Rita Gross, Janet Gyatso, Miranda Shaw, Barbara Aziz, and Karma Lekshe Tsomo.  

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Marsha Altman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of a scattered collection of essays, some of which are interesting and some of which are surprisingly uncritical of traditional Buddhist texts for a book on women who are Buddhist.