![]() ![]() ![]() Her varied background is put to good use in this book, as she combines excellent historical research with moving and personal interviews with each of the amazing women featured.ĭakinis in Tibetan Buddhism represent the female principle of enlightenment, and each of the women included in this book embodies this in her own unique way. She eventually earned her Phd in Asian Studies and is now a visiting scholar in Religious Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. ![]() Haas is a journalist by training, who became a Buddhist practitioner herself after a visit to Bhutan. In Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Michaela Haas profiles and interviews twelve leading contemporary women teachers within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. ![]()
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