Capturing the Quotidian in the Everyday Renunciation of Buddhist Nuns in Tibet

Tibetan Language Works

Atīśa. 2016. ’Brom ston pa rgyal ba’i ’byung gnas kyi skyes rabs bka’ gdams bu chos. Serta: Gser thang bla rung lnga rig nang bstan slob gling. http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/W3CN4789.

Dpal mo (rtsom sgrig pa). 2005. Bzho lung: Deng rabs bod kyi bud med rtsom pa po’i snyan rtsom gces btus. Beijing: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang.

———(rtsom sgrig pa). 2006. Deng rabs bod kyi skyes ma’i brtsams chos bdams sgrig. Beijing : Krung go’i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang.

———(rtsom sgrig pa). 2011. Deng rabs bod rigs bud med kyi dpe tshogs las sgrung rtsom phyogs bsgrigs, Beijing: Krung go’i bod rigs dpe skrung khang.

——— (rtsom sgrig pa). 2016. Bod kyi deng rabs bud med rtsom pa po’i dpe tshogs. Chengdu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrung khang.

Skal bzang lha mo. 1999. Drang srong bsti gnas kyi rmi lam yun cig, edited by Bkra shis tshe ring. Dharamsala: A myes rma chen bod kyi rig gzhung zhib ’jug khang. http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/MW4CZ24515.

Tshe sgron skyid. 2005. Skyo snang gi zlos gar. Lanzhou: Kan su’u mi rigs dpe skrung khang. ———.2016. “Kher rkyang gi rnam shes.” In Shen/Remembrance, vol. 2 of Bod kyi deng rabs bud med rtsom pa po’i dpe tshogs, edited by Dpal mo, 154–197. Chengdu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrung khang.

———.2017. “Mi tshe’i bzhud lam khrod rnyed pa’i ’od snang dang dad mos.” In Bud med rtsom pa pos gsar rtsom gleng ba, edited by Lcags rdor rgyal and Go zhul grags pa ’byung gnas, 221–60. Xining: Mtsho sngon mi rigs dpe skrun khang.

English Language Works

Diemberger, Hildegard. 2007. When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press.

Dyer, Alison Melnick. 2022. The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Gayley, Holly. 2016. Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press.

Gayley, Holly and Somtso Bhum. 2022. “Parody and Pathos: Sexual Transgressions by ‘Fake’ Lamas in Tibetan Short Stories.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 63 (April): 62–94.

Gyatso, Janet. Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Gyatso, Lobsang and Gareth Sparham. 1998. Memoirs of a Tibetan Monk. Boston: Snow Lion Publications.

Havnevik, Hanna. 1999. “The Life of Jetsun Lochen Rinchen (1865–1951).” Internationales Sym- posium: Frauen im Buddhismus, Februrary 7–9, 1997 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Uni- versität, Frankfurt am Main. Journal of Religious Culture/Journal für Religionskultur 27.11: 1–15.

Jabb, Lama. 2022. “Distilling Joys and Woes: An Appreciation of Contemporary Tibetan Wom- en’s Writing. སྐྱིད་སྡུག་བསྙལ་པའི་དེང་རབས་བོད་མོའི་བརྩམས་ཆོས་མྱོང་རོལ།.” Journal of Tibetan Literature. 1.1: 211–226.

Jacoby, Sarah. 2014. Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro. New York: Columbia University Press.

McMillin, Laurie. 2001. English in Tibet, Tibet in English: Self-Presentation in Tibet and the Dias- pora. New York: Palgrave.

Mohr, Thea and Venerable Jampa Tsedroen, eds. 2010. Dignity and Discipline: Reviving Full Ordi- nation for Nuns. Cambridge: Wisdom Publications.

Ngai, Sianne. 2007. Ugly Feelings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Padma ’tsho. 2021. “The Future of Tibetan Women.” In Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Holly Gayley, 209–18. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications.

Padma ’tsho and Sarah Jacoby. 2021. “Lessons from Buddhist Foremothers.” In Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Holly Gayley, 219–25. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications.

Robin, Françoise. 2015. “Caring for Women’s Words and Women’s Bodies: A Field Note on Palmo

and her ‘Demoness Welfare Association for Women’.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 34 (Dec.): 153–169.

Schaeffer, Kurtis. 2004. Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

———. 2010. “Tibetan Biography: Growth and Criticism.” In Edition, éditions: l’écrit au Tibet, évolution et devenir, edited by Anne Chayet et al, 263–306. München: Indus Verlag.