I Give You My Life
A Spirituality, Nonfiction, Buddhism book. Like books about personal spiritual paths. This is about a Buddhist...
Ayya Khema (1923-1997) was the first Western woman to become a Theravadan Buddhist nun. As such, she has served as a model and inspiration for women from all the Buddhist traditions who have sought to revive the practice of women's monasticism in modern times. Though her renown as a teacher is widespread, few know the truly amazing details of her life before her monastic ordination at the age of fifty-eight. And what a life it was. Born Ilse Kussel in Berlin, Germany, she grew up in a prosperous Jewish family that...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9781570625718 / 1570625719
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Like books about personal spiritual paths. This is about a Buddhist nun. Biography of the German-born first Western woman ordained a nun in the Theravadin tradition. Much of the book chronicles her itinerant pre-Buddhist life, travelling and living in China, California, South American and then in Australia (she didn't begin to practice seriously until her mid-40's). A fairly straight and non-spiritual account.... Sometimes I have no memory of what compelled to order a book on Amazon that I thought I must read. It has happened so many times that I'll never finish all of them. There is a reason for Amazon's "Wish list" which could delay my "wants".
