Women and Buddhism: A Partial Bibliography

Does not include references to pertinent information in sources on general Buddhist topics.
Edit date: February 27, 2005.


BOOKS

  • Allione, Tsultrim. Women of Wisdom. New York: Arkana, 1986.
  • Arai, Paula K. R. Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Boucher, Sandy. Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.
  • Cabezon, Jose, ed. Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender.
  • Carmody, Denise L. Women and World Religions.
  • Falk, Nancy A. and Rita M. Gross, ed. Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980. (contains several essays on Buddhism)
  • Findly, Ellison Banks, ed.. Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000)
  • Friedman, Lenore. Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America. Boston: Shambhala, 1987.
  • Gross, Rita M., Buddhism after Patriarchy (State University of New York Press, 1992)
  • Gutschow, Kim, Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004) -- Zangskar, near Ladakh
  • Hopkinson, Deborah, et al. Not Mixing Up Buddhism: Essays on Women and Buddhist Practice. New York: White Pine Press, 1986.
  • Horner, I. B. Women Under Primitive Buddhism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1930. Reprinted 1975.
  • King, Sallie B., trans. Passionate Journey: The Spiritual Autobiography of Satomi Myodo. Boston: Shambhala, 1987.
  • King, Ursula, ed. Women in the World's Religions, Past and Present. New York: Paragon House, 1987. (contains several essays on Buddhism)
  • Li, Jung-hsi, trans. Biographies of Buddhist Nuns: Pao-chang's Pi-chiu-ni-chuan. Osaka, Japan: Tohokan, 1981.
  • Obeyesekere, Garanath. Medusa's Hair. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981.
  • Oldenberg, Hermann and Richard Pischel, trans. The Therigatha. London: Pali Text Society, 1966.
  • Paul, Diana. Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in Mahayana Buddhism. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1985.
  • Sidor, Ellen S. A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism. Cumberland, Rhode Island: Primary Point Press, 1987.
  • Smith, Robert J. and Ella Lury Wiswell. The Women of Suye Mura. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1982.
  • Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha. New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1989.
  • Tsomo, Karma Lekshe, ed. Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream. Richmond: Curzon, 2000.
  • Willis, Janice D., ed. Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet. New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1989.


ARTICLES and CHAPTERS

  • Barholomeusz, Tessa. "Sri Lankan Women and the Buddhist Revival." IRIS (Fall 1991): 43-48.
  • Barnes, Nancy. "Women in Buddhism." In Arvina Sharma, ed., Women in World Religions. New York: SUNY Press, 1987.
  • Goodrich, Grace. "Nuns of North China." Asia 37 (1937): 90-93.
  • Eitel, E. J. "A Buddhist Purgatory for Women." Notes and Queries on China and Japan 5 (June 1868): 66-85.
  • Iwai, Hirosato. "The Buddhist Priest and the Ceremony of Attaining Womanhood during the Yuan Dynasty." Memoirs of the Toyo Bunko 7 (1935): 105-161.
  • Kajiyama Yuichi. "Women in Buddhism." The Eastern Buddhist 15/2 (1982): 53-70.
  • Kaneko, Sachiko and Robert E. Morrell. "Sanctuary: Kamakura's Tokeiji Convent." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 10/2-3 (1983): 195-228.
  • Keyes, Charles F. "Mother or Mistress but Never a Monk: Buddhist Notions of Female Gender in Rural Thailand." American Ethnologist 11/2 (1984): 223-241.
  • Ku, Cheng-mei. "The Mahisasaka View of Women." In David J. Kalupahana, ed., Buddhist Thought and Ritual. Pp. 103-124. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
  • Levering, Miriam L. "The Dragon Girl and the Abbess of Mo-shan: Gender and Status in the Ch'an Buddhist Tradition." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 5/1 (1982): 19-35.
  • Morrell, Robert E., trans. "Mirror for Women: Muju Ichien's Tsuma Kagami." Monumenta Nipponica 35/1 (1980): 45-75.
  • Mu Soeng Sunim, "Buddhist Nuns in Korea," in Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen -- Tradition and Teachers (Cumberland, RI: Primary Point Press, 1987, 1991).
  • Nakamura, Kyoko. "Revelatory Experience in the Female Life Cycle: A Biographical Study of Women Religionists in Modern Japan." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 8/3-4 (1981): 187-205.
  • Sangren, P. Steven. "Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols: Kuan-Yin, Ma-tsu, and the Eternal Mother." Signs 9/1 (1983): 4-25.
  • Schuster, Nancy. "Striking a Balance: Women and Images of Women in Early Chinese Buddhism." In Yvonne Y. Haddad and Ellison B. Findly, ed., Women, Religion, and Social Change. New York: SUNY Press, 1985.
  • Segawa, Kiyoko. "Menstrual Taboos Imposed upon Women." In Richard M. Dorson, ed., Studies in Japanese Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1963.
  • Sponberg, Alan, "Attitudes toward Women and the Feminine in Early Buddhism" in Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender, Jose Ignacio Cabezon, ed., (State University of New York Press, 1992) pp. 3-36.
  • Takemi, Momoko. "Menstruation Sutra Belief in Japan." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 10/2-3 (1983): 229-246.
  • Tsai, Kathryn. "The Chinese Buddhist Monastic Order for Women." In Guisso and Johannessen, ed., Women in China. Youngstown, New York: Philo Press, 1981.
  • Tsu, Y. Y. "Diary of a Chinese Buddhist Nun: T'ze Kuang." The Journal of Religion 7/5-6 (1927): 612-618.
  • Uchino, Kumiko. "The Status Elevation Process of Soto Sect Nuns in Modern Japan." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 10/2-3 (1983): 177-194.
  • Yuichi Kajiyama, "Women in Buddhism" in The Eastern Buddhist, vol. 15, (Autumn 1982) pp. 53-70.