| Table of Contents |
| | Acknowledgments | |
| | Introduction | 1 |
| I | Ordination, Affiliation, and Relation to the Sangha | |
| | | The Nuns at the Stupa: Inscriptional Evidence for the Lives and Activities of Early Buddhist Nuns in India / Nancy J. Barnes | 17 |
| | | Women In Between: Becoming Religious Persons in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk | 37 |
| | | Voramai Kabilsingh: The First Thai Bhikkhuni, and Chatsumarn Kabilsingh: Advocate for a Bhikkhuni Sangha in Thailand / Martine Batchelor | 58 |
| | | Buddhist Action: Lay Women and Thai Monks / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. | 63 |
| | | Western Buddhist Nuns: A New Phenomenon in an Ancient Tradition / Bhiksuni Thubten Chodron | 81 |
| | | Sakyadhita in Western Europe: A Personal Perspective / Rotraut Wurst | 97 |
| | | Novice Ordination for Nuns: The Rhetoric and Reality of Female Monasticism in Northwest India / Kim Gutschow | 103 |
| | | An Empowerment Ritual for Nuns in Contemporary Japan / Paula K. R. Arai | 119 |
| II | Teachers, Teaching, and Lineages | |
| | | Women Teachers of Women: Early Nuns "Worthy of my Confidence" / Ellison Banks Findly | 133 |
| | | Achaan Ranjuan: A Thai Lay Woman as Master Teacher / Martine Batchelor | 156 |
| | | Patterns of Renunciation: The Changing World of Burmese Nuns / Hiroko Kawanami | 159 |
| | | An American Zen Teacher / Trudy Goodman | 172 |
| | | Teaching Lineages and Land: Renunciation and Domestication Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka / Nirmala S. Salgado | 175 |
| | | Transformation of a Housewife: Dipa Ma Barua and Her Teachings to Theravada Women / Amy Schmidt | 201 |
| | | My Dharma Teacher Died Too Soon / James Whitehill | 217 |
| III | Political and Social Change | |
| | | Women Changing Tibet, Activism Changing Women / Serinity Young | 229 |
| | | The Women's Alliance: Catalyzing Change in Ladakh / Helena Norberg-Hodge | 243 |
| | | Sujata's Army: Dalit Buddhist Women and Self-Emancipation / Owen M. Lynch | 247 |
| | | Religious Leadership Among Maharashtrian Women / Eleanor Zelliot | 259 |
| | | Jamin Sunim: Prison Work for a Korean Nun, Myohi Sunim: A Korean Nun Teacher of Elderly Women, and Pomyong Sunim: Flower Arranging for the Korean Lay / Martine Batchelor | 275 |
| | | Women, War, and Peace in Sri Lanka / Tessa Bartholomeusz | 283 |
| | | Mae Chi Boonliang: A Thai Nun Runs a Charitable Foundation, and Mae Chi Sansenee: A Thai Nun as Patroness / Martine Batchelor | 297 |
| | | Diversity and Race: New Koans for American Buddhism / Janice D. Willis | 303 |
| IV | Art and Architecture | |
| | | From Periphery to Center: Tibetan Women's Journey to Sacred Artistry / Melissa Kerin | 319 |
| | | Performing Mandalas: Buddhist Practice in Transition / Judy Dworin | 339 |
| | | Women, Art, and the Buddhist Spirit / Ann W. Norton | 357 |
| | | Space as Mind/Mandala Places: Joan Halifax, Tsultrim Allione, and Yvonne Rand / Sarah D. Buie | 373 |
| V | Body and Health | |
| | | Sickness and Health: Becoming a Korean Buddhist Shaman / Hi-ah Park | 393 |
| | | Tokwang Sunim: A Korean Nun as Medical Practitioner / Martin Batchelor | 403 |
| | | How A Buddhist Decides Whether or Not to Have Children / Kate Lila Wheeler | 405 |
| | | Theanvy Kuoch: Buddhism and Mental Health Among Cambodian Refugees / Theanvy Kuoch | 425 |
| | | Women's Health in Tibetan Medicine and Tibet's "First" Female Doctor / Vincanne Adams, Dashima Dovchin | 433 |
| | Bibliography | 451 |
| | List of Contributors | 481 |
| | Index | 487 |
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