Comments on: Book Review – The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns, translated by Matty Weingast https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2020/08/25/book-review-the-first-free-women-poems-of-the-early-buddhist-nuns-translated-by-matty-weingast/ Writing in the post-truth world Sun, 21 Feb 2021 02:13:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2020/08/25/book-review-the-first-free-women-poems-of-the-early-buddhist-nuns-translated-by-matty-weingast/#comment-135 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 02:13:41 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=789#comment-135 In reply to B.

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]]> By: B https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2020/08/25/book-review-the-first-free-women-poems-of-the-early-buddhist-nuns-translated-by-matty-weingast/#comment-133 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:17:14 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=789#comment-133 Hello! I just stumbled on your blog.

You may be interested to know that the publisher has pulled this book from sale over their false marketing of the book as a translation. You can read their statement here: firstfreewomen.org/public-statement/public-note-from-shambhala-31-jan-2021/

Basically they are now admitting that this is an original work at best only inspired by the nuns in the Therigatha. A google search will lead you to several articles that have been written recently about the book.

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