[PDF.84qr] Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns

Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns

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 | #996963 in Books |  Wisdom Publications |  2003-06-15 |  2003-06-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.65 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderful|By LVMc|Forty-eight Chinese Buddhist nuns of the fifth to the twentieth century are represented in this lovely book. Gratitude to Beata Grant for bringing the lives and poems of largely forgotten women into the light. These poems have not been published in English before.

It is wonderful to learn a little bit about the lives of these women, and to read so| |"Beata Grant's deft and elegant translations, together with her informative introduction and the brief biographies she provides for each of her judiciously selected poets, disclose fascinating but hitherto concealed or ignored dimensions of Chinese women's spi

Women played major roles in the history of Buddhist China, but given the paucity of the remaining records, their voices have all but faded. In Daughters of Emptiness, Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse - by turns assertive, observant, devout - of forty-eight nuns from sixteen centuries of imperial China. This selection of poems, along with the brief biographical accounts that accompany them, affords readers a gli...

You easily download any file type for your device.Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns   |  Beata Grant.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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