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| The Buddha said females have all it takes to reach enlightenment (buddhism.about.com) |
In Search of Buddha's Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads
An award-winning journalist vividly reports her two-year and 60,000-mile
global odyssey in the company of exceptional women who choose to
dedicate their lives to Buddhism.
Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in 2011. After hearing their stories — of prison [under the invading Chinese], extreme hardship, and ultimately fleeing across the Himalayas into exile [in Inda] — she resolved to learn more about the private, courageous women of Buddhism:
Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in 2011. After hearing their stories — of prison [under the invading Chinese], extreme hardship, and ultimately fleeing across the Himalayas into exile [in Inda] — she resolved to learn more about the private, courageous women of Buddhism:
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| Sacred feminine power: Kwan Yin |
Who they are, their
experience of suffering, what motivates them to seek enlightenment, and
what stands in their way. Toomey’s quest took on even greater urgency
with the sudden deaths of her father and then her mother, and her own
search for healing wisdom in the aftermath of loss.
In Search of Buddha’s Daughters introduces us to women from around the world — Nepal, India, Burma, and Japan, as well as the US, UK, and France — who have come to the ordained Buddhist life from every faith and career:
In Search of Buddha’s Daughters introduces us to women from around the world — Nepal, India, Burma, and Japan, as well as the US, UK, and France — who have come to the ordained Buddhist life from every faith and career:
- a former policewoman,
- a princess,
- a Bollywood star, and
- a concert violinist.
Toomey meets a Harvard graduate
who sometimes breaks into hip-hop moves after meditating, a Japanese
nun who has written bestselling erotica, and a Nepalese order of nuns
who practice kung fu for spiritual and physical empowerment.
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| Tadolf Swiftler, the fake face of female power |
By insightful conversations with over 30 women, Toomey
investigates Buddhism as an antidote to the problems of life in the 21st century.
And she considers the status of women today — worldwide,
and within one of our oldest wisdom traditions.
“In a world numbed by
the amount of attention paid to violence, terrorism, and political and
religious power struggles,” she writes, “I find it profoundly refreshing
to come across women whose lives are dedicated to nurturing the
opposite.” More
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