| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Ordination, Affiliation, and Relation to the Sangha | |
| The Nuns at the Stupa: Inscriptional Evidence for the Lives and Activities of Early Buddhist Nuns in India | p. 17 |
| Women In Between: Becoming Religious Persons in Thailand | p. 37 |
| Voramai Kabilsingh: The First Thai Bhikkhuni, and Chatsumarn Kabilsingh: Advocate for a Bhikkhuni Sangha in Thailand | p. 58 |
| Buddhist Action: Lay Women and Thai Monks | p. 63 |
| Western Buddhist Nuns: A New Phenomenon in an Ancient Tradition | p. 81 |
| Sakyadhita in Western Europe: A Personal Perspective | p. 97 |
| Novice Ordination for Nuns: The Rhetoric and Reality of Female Monasticism in Northwest India | p. 103 |
| An Empowerment Ritual for Nuns in Contemporary Japan | p. 119 |
| Teachers, Teaching, and Lineages | |
| Women Teachers of Women: Early Nuns "Worthy of my Confidence" | p. 133 |
| Achaan Ranjuan: A Thai Lay Woman as Master Teacher | p. 156 |
| Patterns of Renunciation: The Changing World of Burmese Nuns | p. 159 |
| An American Zen Teacher | p. 172 |
| Teaching Lineages and Land: Renunciation and Domestication Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka | p. 175 |
| Transformation of a Housewife: Dipa Ma Barua and Her Teachings to Theravada Women | p. 201 |
| My Dharma Teacher Died Too Soon | p. 217 |
| Political and Social Change | |
| Women Changing Tibet, Activism Changing Women | p. 229 |
| The Women's Alliance: Catalyzing Change in Ladakh | p. 243 |
| Sujata's Army: Dalit Buddhist Women and Self-Emancipation | p. 247 |
| Religious Leadership Among Maharashtrian Women | p. 259 |
| Jamin Sunim: Prison Work for a Korean Nun, Myohi Sunim: A Korean Nun Teacher of Elderly Women, and Pomyong Sunim: Flower Arranging for the Korean Lay | p. 275 |
| Women, War, and Peace in Sri Lanka | p. 283 |
| Mae Chi Boonliang: A Thai Nun Runs a Charitable Foundation, and Mae Chi Sansenee: A Thai Nun as Patroness | p. 297 |
| Diversity and Race: New Koans for American Buddhism | p. 303 |
| Art and Architecture | |
| From Periphery to Center: Tibetan Women's Journey to Sacred Artistry | p. 319 |
| Performing Mandalas: Buddhist Practice in Transition | p. 339 |
| Women, Art, and the Buddhist Spirit | p. 357 |
| Space as Mind/Mandala Places: Joan Halifax, Tsultrim Allione, and Yvonne Rand | p. 373 |
| Body and Health | |
| Sickness and Health: Becoming a Korean Buddhist Shaman | p. 393 |
| Tokwang Sunim: A Korean Nun as Medical Practitioner | p. 403 |
| How A Buddhist Decides Whether or Not to Have Children | p. 405 |
| Theanvy Kuoch: Buddhism and Mental Health Among Cambodian Refugees | p. 425 |
| Women's Health in Tibetan Medicine and Tibet's "First" Female Doctor | p. 433 |
| Bibliography | p. 451 |
| List of Contributors | p. 481 |
| Index | p. 487 |
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