Women Under Primitive Buddhism: Laywomen and Almswomen

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Reprint of 1936 Edition. Gutenberg Publishers, as our name suggests, is committed to the preservation of the printed word. Each reprint we publish is carefully prepared, cleaned, and preserved, producing an accurate facsimile of the original edition.From the Jacket: "The book is an attempt to present the position of Buddhist laywomen and almswomen in historical perspective. For the study of the laywomen the author has exploited the material found in the Canonical literature, and the Commentaries on them." Chapters depict the laywomen as mother, daughter, wife, widow and worker. Other chapters depict almswomen, their admission into the Order, the Eight Chief Rules, and Life in the Order.Isaline Blew Horner was one of the Presidents of the Pali Text Society, Oxford and an honorary Fellow of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.

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