On the role of women in Buddhism:

Rita M. Gross,

Buddhism After

Buddhism (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993).

Diana Y. Paul,

Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahayana Tradition (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985).

Karma Lekshe Tsomo,

Buddhism Through American Women’s Eyes (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion

On the female founders of the Tantric Buddhist movement:

Miranda Shaw,

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