The open-access edition of The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön was made possible in part by an award from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
This publication was also supported by grants from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and the Bates College Faculty Development Fund.
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Parts of chapter 2 are adapted from Melnick Dyer, “Female Authority and Privileged Lives: The Hagiography of Mingyur Peldrön,” published in the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (2018).
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Names: Melnick Dyer, Alison, author.
Title: The Tibetan nun Mingyur Peldrön : a woman of power and privilege / Alison Melnick Dyer.
Description: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021050724 (print) | LCCN 2021050725 (ebook) | ISBN 9780295750354 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780295750361 (paperback) | ISBN 9780295750378 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Mi-’gyur-dpal-sgron, Smin-gling Rje-btsun, 1699–1769. | Buddhist nuns—Tibet Region—Biography. | Yoginis—Tibet Region—Biography. | Lamas—Tibet Region—Biography. | Buddhism—Tibet Region—History.
Classification: LCC BQ972.I347 M45 2022 (print) | LCC BQ.I347 (ebook) | DDC 294.3/657092 [B]— dc23/eng/20220223
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