Therigatha Poems of the first Buddhist Women W.H. Heinemann Award (1966) slave trading and corruption are

slave trading and corruption are rife

'In what have we invested

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Therigatha Poems of the first Buddhist Women W.H. Heinemann Award (1966) slave trading and corruption areThe Thergth, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. These women were thers, the senior ones, among ordained Buddhist women, and they bore that epithet because of their religious achievements. The poems they left behind are arguably among the most ancient examples of womens writing in the world and they are unmatched for their quality of personal expression and the