Women in Tibet: Past and Present

Janet Gyatso and Hanna Havnevik

Paper, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13099-8
$26.50

October, 2005
Cloth, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13098-1
$70.50

"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

"Women in Tibet goes beyond the popular stereotypes of women, Tibet, and Buddhism. It breaks new ground in exploring the continuities in the lives and experiences of Tibetan women." — Ronald Schwartz, author of Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising

Related Subjects

• Asian Religion
• Asian Studies

About the Author

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).

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