Bibliography

My resources and references, plus additional reading on relevant subjects. Not a comprehensive list. Links open in a new tab

Nonfiction

Film

• Becoming a Woman in Zanskar (Documentary)
• Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint, 2006, dir. Neten Chokling (Fictionalized hagiography)

People

• Bart Coppens (International entomologist)
• Lajim Budha (Himalayan documentarian)
• phurpa lhamo (Dolpo vlogger)
• Sravasti Abbey (English language Tibetan Buddhist abbey in Washington State)
• Theory of Samsara (Western-born Tibetan Buddhist monk recently returned from extended retreat)

Readings: Buddhism (and gender)

• Gender Disobedience as a Path to Awakening in Buddhist Tantra, by Dallas J Baker
• Changing Narratives around Women in the Buddhist Perspective, by Souraditya Banerjee
• One Plus One Makes Three, by Janet Gyatso
• Renunciation in Theravada Buddhism, by Celine Grunhagen
• Tibetan Tantric Householders, Moral Sexuality, and the Ambiguities of Esoteric Buddhist Expertise in Exile, by Ben Philip Joffe
• Cynicism and Magic, by Chogyam Trungpa

Readings: Tibetan and Nepali culture

• How This Tibetan Community Is Modernizing a Centuries-Old Braiding Tradition, by Margaux Anbouba
• Poetry in Tibet: Glu, mGur, sNyan ngag and Songs of Experience, by Roger R. Jackson
• [Adult content; text only] Notes on Treatise on Passion, by Donald S. Lopez
• Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, by Marylin M. Rhie and Robert Thurman

Readings: Sericulture

• Silk Stories 1: The Bodies of Bodhisattvas Transformed, the Manifestation of Unparalleled Generosity, by Veronica Kassatly
• For A Compassionate Killing: Chinese Buddhism, Sericulture, and the Silkworm God Aśvaghoṣa, by Stuart H. Young
• The Gendered Nature of Silkworm Breeding: Women in Sericulture, by Claudio Zanier

Readings: Entomology

• Cordyceps sinensis Medicinal Fungus: Traditional Use among Tibetan People, Harvesting Techniques, and Modern Uses, by Alessandro Boesi and Francesca Cardi
• Steps towards sustainable harvest of Ophiocordyceps sinensis in Bhutan, by Paul Cannon et al.
• Caterpillar Fungus of the Tibetan Plateau, by Lucas Crouch
• The Himalayan Gold Rush, by Noah Stone
• Laboratory Rearing of Thitarodes armoricanus and Thitarodes jianchuanensis, by Zui Tao et al
• Zoopedia: Ghost Moths, by Lewis Twiby
• The Last of the Fungus, by Zhengyang Wang
• The Wild Life of Yartsa Gunbu, by Daniel Winkler
• The Ghost Moth and Death of an Ecosystem, by Pramod K. Yadav

Fiction

• The Monk and the Gun, 2023, dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji (Fictionalized depiction of recent current events)
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, 2013, dir. Isao Takahata
• The Secret of Kells, 2009, by Cartoon Saloon
• Land of the Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni), by Haruko Ichikawa
• Queen of the Sea, by Dylan Meconis
• Castle Waiting, by Linda Medley
• Mushishi, by Yuki Urushibara

My most-used brushes

These are free downloads, with a paid version available if you also enjoy them and want to support the creators! For Procreate

• Natural Gouache, by Ittai Manero
• Colored Pencil, by Fatima Mandouh