Therigatha Poems of the First Buddhist Women 1st Edition by Charles Hallisey ISBN 978-0674427730 0674427730

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ISBN 10:  0674427730

ISBN 13: 978-0674427730

Author: Charles Hallisey

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. The poems they left behind are arguably among the most ancient examples of women’s writing in the world and they are unmatched for their quality of personal expression and the extraordinary insight they offer into the lives of women in the ancient Indian past―and indeed, into the lives of women as such.

This new version of the Therīgāthā, based on a careful reassessment of the major editions of the work and printed in the Roman script common for modern editions of Pali texts, offers the most powerful and the most readable translation ever achieved in English.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

2. Poems with One Verse

3. Poems with Two Verses

4. Poems with Three Verses

5. A Poem with Four Verses

6. Poems with Five Verses

7. Poems with Six Verses

8. Poems with Seven Verses

9. A Poem with Eight Verses

10. A Poem with Nine Verses

11. A Poem with Eleven Verses

12. A Poem with Twelve Verses

13. A Poem with Sixteen Verses

14. Poems with About Twenty Verses

15. A Poem with About Thirty Verses

16. A Poem with About Forty Verses

17. The Great Chapter

18. Abbreviations

19. Notes to the Translation

20. Glossary

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