Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.
Herald Malaysia

From blisters to baptism: A Buddhist woman’s walk to the Catholic faith

For nearly eight years, this Sri Lankan woman suffered from open blisters on both legs nearly every month — sometimes more ...
insider.si.edu

The sound of vultures' wings : the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd ritual practice of the female Buddha Machik Labdrön / Jeffrey W. Cupchik ; foreword by Pencho Rabgey

The Sound of Vultures' Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetain Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetain female ...
The Middletown Press

Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers

(THE CONVERSATION) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she was ...