Meetings with Remarkable Women Buddhist Teachers in America

by FRIEDMAN, LENORE

• ISBN13: 9781570624742
• ISBN10: 1570624747
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-15
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

This book celebrates the flowering of women in American Buddhism. Lenore Friedman set out to explore this phenomenon by interviewing some of the remarkable women who were teaching Buddhism in the United States. The seventeen women she writes about vary in background, personality, and form of teaching. Together the represent the growing presence and influence of women teachers in America-a development that will surely affect Buddhism in the West for years to come. This revised edition includes a new section describing developments in these women's lives and work since the book's first publication in 1987. Teachers include:Toni Packer, Maurine Stuart, Pema Chouml;drouml;n, Joko Beck, Ruth Denison, Bobby Rhodes, Jiyu Kennett, Sharon Salzberg, Karuna Dharma, Joanna Macy, Gesshin Prabhasa Dharma, Sonja Margulies, Yvonne Rand, Jacqueline Mandell, Colleen Schmitz, Ayya Khema, Tsering Everest

Author Biography

Lenore Friedman is a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley, California. She has been interested in Buddhism since the late 1950s and has practiced Buddhist meditation since the late 1960s.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction to the First Edition	3	(36)
Toni Packer	39	(32)
Maurine Stuart	71	(32)
Pema Chodron	103	(22)
Charlotte Joko Beck	125	(26)
Ruth Denison	151	(16)
Bobby Rhodes	167	(16)
Jiyu Kennett	183	(36)
Karuna Dharma	219	(24)
Sharon Salzberg	243	(20)
Gesshin Prabhasa Dharma	263	(22)
Sonja Margulies, Yvonne Rand	285	(14)
Jacqueline Mandell, Colleen Schmitz, Ayya Khema	299	(22)
Tsering Everest, Joanna Macy	321	(18)
Epilogue	339	(16)
Notes	355	(2)
Glossary	357	(4)
Appendix: Addresses of Teachers and Centers	361