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    THE FEMININE FACE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

    Mar 23, 2021 2 minutes

    CHRISTINA FELDMAN is the author of Compassion: Listening to the Cries of the World and Woman Awake: Women Practicing Buddhism.

    Female buddhas and bodhisattvas occupy a central role in the Mahayana Buddhist traditions. Temples and monasteries in China, Korea, Nepal, and beyond are rich with the iconography of wise and powerful female figures who show the way to awakening. These

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