Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University Divinity School. She is the author of Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary and In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Remembrance and Mindfulness in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.Hanna Havnevik is assistant professor at the University of Oslo and is the author of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns: History, Cultural Norms, and Social Reality and The Life of Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche (1865-1951).

Readers interested in gender roles in Tibetan Buddhism can learn much from these insights into the lives of Tibetan women. American Reference Books Annual This stimulating collection... uses Tibetan literary sources and ingeniously mined field research in today's Tibet Autonomous Region and beyond... Recommended. Choice A welcome addition to the fields of Tibetan Studies and Women's Studies. -- Ellen Posman Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• Introduction Part I: Women in Traditional Tibet Ladies of the Tibetan Empire (Seventh to Ninth Centuries), by Helga Uebach The Woman Illusion? Research into the Lives of Spiritually Accomplished Women Leaders of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by Dan Martin The Autobiography of a Medieval Hermitess: Orgyen Chokyi (1675-1729), by Kurtis R. Schaeffer Part II: Modern Tibetan Women Female Oracles in Modern Tibet, by Hildegard Diemberger Outstanding Women in Tibetan Medicine, by Tashi Tsering Women in the Performing Arts: Portraits of Six Singers, by Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo, by Charlene E Makley Women and Politics in Tibet Today, by Robert Barnett Contributors Appendix Index

Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University Divinity School. She is the author of Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary and In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Remembrance and Mindfulness in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.Hanna Havnevik is assistant professor at the University of Oslo and is the author of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns: History, Cultural Norms, and Social Reality and The Life of Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche (1865-1951).

Readers interested in gender roles in Tibetan Buddhism can learn much from these insights into the lives of Tibetan women. American Reference Books Annual This stimulating collection... uses Tibetan literary sources and ingeniously mined field research in today's Tibet Autonomous Region and beyond... Recommended. Choice A welcome addition to the fields of Tibetan Studies and Women's Studies. -- Ellen Posman Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• Introduction Part I: Women in Traditional Tibet Ladies of the Tibetan Empire (Seventh to Ninth Centuries), by Helga Uebach The Woman Illusion? Research into the Lives of Spiritually Accomplished Women Leaders of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by Dan Martin The Autobiography of a Medieval Hermitess: Orgyen Chokyi (1675-1729), by Kurtis R. Schaeffer Part II: Modern Tibetan Women Female Oracles in Modern Tibet, by Hildegard Diemberger Outstanding Women in Tibetan Medicine, by Tashi Tsering Women in the Performing Arts: Portraits of Six Singers, by Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo, by Charlene E Makley Women and Politics in Tibet Today, by Robert Barnett Contributors Appendix Index