How Did A Book Of New Poetry Get Passed Off As The Work Of Ancient Buddhist Nuns?
Matty Weingast's The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns was marketed by America's leading Buddhist publisher " and hailed by many readers " as a translation of the Therigatha, a collection of Pali verse attributed to the very first community of Buddhist nuns. But as scholars familiar with the actual Therigatha got […]