Therigatha: Selected Poems of the First Buddhist Women

Book Overview

A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.

The Therīgāthā, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. These women were therīs, the senior ones, among ordained Buddhist women, and they bore that epithet because of their religious achievements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674427734
• ISBN13: 9780674427730
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"