| This is my sangha, the community of spiritual seekers with whom I take refuge. They are my spiritual friends; their wisdom supports me in my practice. Some of them explicitly address feminist issues. Others simply describe the dharma in ways that support my addressing feminist issues in my sadhana.
In 1996 when I started this bibliography, I had read everything that I could find in this field. Now, in 2000, it's getting away from me. Feminism is contributing significantly to the development of American Buddhism (and in some ways strongly influencing Buddhism in the rest of the world, too). New work is being published rapidly. But I keep trying to read it all, and mention it here. (Of course I woudn't mind help, if anyone would like to contribute comments on books they have read, which aren't here.) Here is a list of works I have annotated. For my comments, click on the author link. |
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| Allione, Tsultrim | ||
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Women of Wisdom | |
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London, Penguin, 1986. | |
| "Relationships & Intimacy as a Path" | ||
| Keynote address of the Buddhism in America Conference, Boston, January 1997. | ||
| "Feeding the Demons: Relaxing Dualism" | ||
| Audiotape #NMT-276 from New Medicine Tapes. | ||
| Badiner, Allan Hunt | ||
| Dharma Gaia; A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology | ||
| Berkeley, Parallax Press, 1990. | ||
| Beck, Charlotte Joko | ||
| Everyday Zen; Love & Work | ||
| Edited by Steve Smith. New York: HarperCollins, 1989. | ||
| Nothing Special | ||
| Edited by Steve Smith. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. | ||
| "The Pools" | ||
| Reprinted from the February and March 1989 issues of the Newsletter of the Zen Center of San Diego, San Diego CA. | ||
| Bielefeldt, Carl, et al | ||
| "Tensions in American Buddhism," cover story in the July 6, 2002, edition of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. (PBS/WNET New York) | ||
| Boucher, Sandy | ||
| Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism | ||
| Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. | ||
| Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism | ||
| Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. | ||
| Discovering Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion | ||
| Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. | ||
| Chödrön, Pema | ||
| The Wisdom of No Escape | ||
| Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1991. | ||
| Start From Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living | ||
| Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1994. | ||
| When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times | ||
| Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997. | ||
| Chödrön, Thubten, ed. | ||
| Blossoms of the Dharma | ||
| Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1999. | ||
| Corless, Roger J. | ||
| The Vision of Buddhism | ||
| St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1989. | ||
| Dresser, Marianne | ||
| Buddhist Women on the Edge; Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier | ||
| Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, 1996 | ||
| Flinders, Carol Lee | ||
| At the Root of this Longing; Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst | ||
| San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1999 | ||
| Friedman, Lenore & Moon, Susan | ||
| Being Bodies; Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment | ||
| Boston, Shambhala Publications, 1997. | ||
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| Goldberg, Natalie | ||
| Long Quiet Highway; Waking Up in America | ||
| New York: Bantam Books, 1993. | ||
| Gross, Rita | ||
| Buddhism After Patriarchy | ||
| Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. | ||
| Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues | ||
| New York: Continuum, 2000. | ||
| Gunaratana, Henepola (Venerable) | ||
| Mindfulness in Plain English | ||
| Boston, Wisdom Publications, 1992 | ||
| Klein, Anne Carolyn | ||
| Meeting the Great Bliss Queen; Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self | ||
| Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. | ||
| Larkin, Geri | ||
| Stumbling Toward Enlightenment | ||
| Berkeley, Celestial Arts, 1997. | ||
| Mackenzie, Vicki | ||
| Cave in the Snow | ||
| Bloomsbury Publishing, NY, 1998. | ||
| Macy, Joanna | ||
| World as Lover, World as Self | ||
| Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1991. | ||
| McLeod, Melvin (editor) | ||
| "Women's Liberation" - a discussion between Sharon Salzberg, Barbara Rhodes, Judith Simmer-Brown & Pat O'Hara, on what it means to be a woman dharma teacher and how they'd like to see Buddhism in America evolve. | ||
| Shambhala Sun, July 2000 | ||
| Prebish, Charles S. | ||
| Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America | ||
| Berkeley, University of California Press: 1999. | ||
| Prebish, Charles S. & Tanaka, Kenneth K. | ||
| The Faces of Buddhism in America | ||
| Berkeley, University of California Press: 1998. | ||
| Salzberg, Sharon | ||
| Lovingkindness; The Revolutionary Art of Happiness | ||
| Boston, Shambhala, 1997. | ||
| Seager, Richard Hughes | ||
| Buddhism in America | ||
| New York, Columbia University Press: 1999. | ||
| Shaw, Miranda | ||
| Passionate Enlightenment; Women in Tantric Buddhism | ||
| Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994. | ||
| "Blessed are the birth-givers; Buddhist views on birth and rebirth" | ||
| Parabola, Vol.23 No.4 (Nov 1998), pp.48-53. (Copyright 1998 Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition) | ||
| "Everything You Wanted to Know about Tantra but were Afraid to Ask" | ||
| An interview with Miranda Shaw by Craig Hamilton in What is Enlightenment, issue 13. | ||
| "Passionate Enlightenment" | ||
| An interview with Miranda Shaw by Tashi Grady Powers, from the Fall, 1995 issue of Enlightening Times. | ||
| Sidor, Ellen S., ed. | ||
| A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism | ||
| Cumberland, RI: Primary Point Press, 1987. | ||
| Tarrant, John | ||
| The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life | ||
| New York, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998. | ||
| Tsomo, Karma Lekshe, ed. | ||
| Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha | ||
| Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Press, 1988. | ||
| Buddhism through American Women's Eyes | ||
| Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Press, 1995. | ||
| Buddhist Women across Cultures: Realizations | ||
| Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. | ||
| Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming against the Stream | ||
| Surry, England: Curzon Press, 2000. | ||
| Unno, Taitetsu | ||
| River of Fire, River of Water; An Introduction to the Pure Land Tradition of Shin Buddhism |
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| Buddhist Books for Children |
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| Is this your sangha too? Does this thinking move you, feed your hunger, shelter you from destructive environments? Do you have other sources to recommend? Please mention them...and say why.
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| Not Buddhist but Useful | ||
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13 March 2004 |
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