On this page, you will find a non-exhaustive list of resources on the topic of the feminine in Vajrayana Buddhism.
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Allione, Tsultrim. Women of Wisdom. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984.
Binder Schmidt, Marcia. Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini. Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2010.
Jacoby, Sarah. Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro. Columbia University Press, 2014.
Mackenzie, Vicki. Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo’s Quest for Enlightenment. Bloomsbury Publications, 1995.
Simmer-Brown, Judith. Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism. Shambhala Publications, 2001.
Padma'tsho and Jacoby, Sarah. Lessons from Buddhist Foremothers in Voices from Larung Gar (edited by Gayley, Holly). Shambhala Publications, 2021.
Padma'tsho and Jacoby, Sarah. Gender Equality in and on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns’ Term. Religions MDPI Journal, 2020.
Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. Women in Buddhist Traditions. New York University Press, 2020.
Tulku, Tarthang. Mother of Knowledge: The Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal. Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1983.
Yeshe Tsogyal. Treasures from Juniper Ridge (translated and edited by Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt). Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2008.
Treasures from Juniper Ridge combines meditation and pith practice instructions in a way that is easy to apply and comprehend. It is a compilation of discovered teachings, termas, by the greatest master of Vajrayana Buddhism, Padmasambhava, hidden by his female disciple, Yeshe Tsogyal. Treasures is replete with pieces that are direct, profound, fresh, and pertinent to our times.
Padmasambhava, Yeshe Tsogyal, and others. Advice from the Lotus-Born (foreword by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, translated and edited by Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt). Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1994.
Padmasambhava is the primary master of Vajrayana, the teachings for our time. Out of his great compassion and wisdom, he instructed his main disciple Yeshe Tsogyal to conceal terma treasures to be revealed at the destined time for future practitioners. The profundity of this advice is meant to be personally applied by all individuals in all circumstances. It is a classic work, which contains valid truth for anyone who sincerely wants to follow a spirituapath.
Padmasambhava. Dakini Teachings (translated and edited by Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt). Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2004.
Padmasambhava, the Indian mystic and tantric Buddhist master, is second only to Buddha Shakyamuni as the most famous personage in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. In the ninth century, he made the journey across the Himalayan Mountains to establish Buddhism for the people in that country. Now, more than 1,000 years later, we are able to hear and be touched by his voice as contained within this collection of oral advice. Sometimes with humor, sometimes with biting sarcasm, Dakini Teachings covers a wide range of instructions. Given not only to the king of Tibet but also to uneducated people, it is a classic work of valid truths for anyone who sincerely wants to follow a spiritual path in every walk of life.