Alice Collett is a Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Council of Great Britain (AHRC) and Lecturer at York St John University. She has worked in different universities in North America and the UK, and published several articles on women in early Indian Buddhism, including two which look at reception history and review the modern scholarly debate on the subject. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Pali Biographies of Buddhist Nuns, for which she is in receipt of an Arts and Humanities Research Council award.

Not only is Women in Early Indian Buddhism interesting from the point of view of an in-depth analysis of women in early Buddhism, it is an engaging and informative glimpse into the benefits of thorough textual analysis.

• CONTRIBUTORS; A NOTE ON NON-ENGLISH WORDS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; MAHAPRAJAPATI GAUTAMI AND THE ORDER OF NUNS IN A GANDHARAN VERSION OF THE DAKSINAVIBHANGASUTRA; BEHIND THE BIRCH BARK CURTAIN; PALI VINAYA; RE-CONCEPTUALIZING FEMALE SEXUALITY IN EARLY BUDDHISM; MAHASAMGHIKA-LOKOTTARAVADA BHIKSUNI VINAYA; THE INTERSECTION OF WOMANLY VIRTUE AND BUDDHIST ASCETICISM; ANGUTTARA-NIKAYA / EKOTTARIKA-AGAMA; OUTSTANDING BHIKKHUNIS IN THE EKOTTARIKA-AGAMA; SAMYUTTA-NIKYA / SAMYUKTA-AGAMA; DEFYING MARA - BHIKKHUNIS IN THE SAMYUKTA-AGAMA; THERIGATHA; NANDA, FEMALE SIBLING OF THE BUDDHA; APADANA: THERI-APADANA; WIVES OF THE SAINTS: MARRIAGE AND KAMMA IN THE PATH TO ARAHANTSHIP; AVADANASATAKA; THE ROLE OF BRAHMANICAL MARRIAGE IN A BUDDHIST TEXT; DHAMMAPADA- ATTHAKATHA/SADDHARMARATNAVALIYA; WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH ASIAN BUDDHIST SOCIETIES; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alice Collett is a Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Council of Great Britain (AHRC) and Lecturer at York St John University. She has worked in different universities in North America and the UK, and published several articles on women in early Indian Buddhism, including two which look at reception history and review the modern scholarly debate on the subject. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Pali Biographies of Buddhist Nuns, for which she is in receipt of an Arts and Humanities Research Council award.

Not only is Women in Early Indian Buddhism interesting from the point of view of an in-depth analysis of women in early Buddhism, it is an engaging and informative glimpse into the benefits of thorough textual analysis.

• CONTRIBUTORS; A NOTE ON NON-ENGLISH WORDS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; MAHAPRAJAPATI GAUTAMI AND THE ORDER OF NUNS IN A GANDHARAN VERSION OF THE DAKSINAVIBHANGASUTRA; BEHIND THE BIRCH BARK CURTAIN; PALI VINAYA; RE-CONCEPTUALIZING FEMALE SEXUALITY IN EARLY BUDDHISM; MAHASAMGHIKA-LOKOTTARAVADA BHIKSUNI VINAYA; THE INTERSECTION OF WOMANLY VIRTUE AND BUDDHIST ASCETICISM; ANGUTTARA-NIKAYA / EKOTTARIKA-AGAMA; OUTSTANDING BHIKKHUNIS IN THE EKOTTARIKA-AGAMA; SAMYUTTA-NIKYA / SAMYUKTA-AGAMA; DEFYING MARA - BHIKKHUNIS IN THE SAMYUKTA-AGAMA; THERIGATHA; NANDA, FEMALE SIBLING OF THE BUDDHA; APADANA: THERI-APADANA; WIVES OF THE SAINTS: MARRIAGE AND KAMMA IN THE PATH TO ARAHANTSHIP; AVADANASATAKA; THE ROLE OF BRAHMANICAL MARRIAGE IN A BUDDHIST TEXT; DHAMMAPADA- ATTHAKATHA/SADDHARMARATNAVALIYA; WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH ASIAN BUDDHIST SOCIETIES; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alice Collett is a Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Council of Great Britain (AHRC) and Lecturer at York St John University. She has worked in different universities in North America and the UK, and published several articles on women in early Indian Buddhism, including two which look at reception history and review the modern scholarly debate on the subject. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Pali Biographies of Buddhist Nuns, for which she is in receipt of an Arts and Humanities Research Council award.

Not only is Women in Early Indian Buddhism interesting from the point of view of an in-depth analysis of women in early Buddhism, it is an engaging and informative glimpse into the benefits of thorough textual analysis.

• CONTRIBUTORS; A NOTE ON NON-ENGLISH WORDS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; MAHAPRAJAPATI GAUTAMI AND THE ORDER OF NUNS IN A GANDHARAN VERSION OF THE DAKSINAVIBHANGASUTRA; BEHIND THE BIRCH BARK CURTAIN; PALI VINAYA; RE-CONCEPTUALIZING FEMALE SEXUALITY IN EARLY BUDDHISM; MAHASAMGHIKA-LOKOTTARAVADA BHIKSUNI VINAYA; THE INTERSECTION OF WOMANLY VIRTUE AND BUDDHIST ASCETICISM; ANGUTTARA-NIKAYA / EKOTTARIKA-AGAMA; OUTSTANDING BHIKKHUNIS IN THE EKOTTARIKA-AGAMA; SAMYUTTA-NIKYA / SAMYUKTA-AGAMA; DEFYING MARA - BHIKKHUNIS IN THE SAMYUKTA-AGAMA; THERIGATHA; NANDA, FEMALE SIBLING OF THE BUDDHA; APADANA: THERI-APADANA; WIVES OF THE SAINTS: MARRIAGE AND KAMMA IN THE PATH TO ARAHANTSHIP; AVADANASATAKA; THE ROLE OF BRAHMANICAL MARRIAGE IN A BUDDHIST TEXT; DHAMMAPADA- ATTHAKATHA/SADDHARMARATNAVALIYA; WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH ASIAN BUDDHIST SOCIETIES; BIBLIOGRAPHY