Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions

by Lobzang Jivaka

Book Overview

Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last is Dillon/Jivaka's extraordinary life story told...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082328039X
• ISBN13: 9780823280391
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.7"