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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