Sketches

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

Steps towards sustainable harvest of Ophiocordyceps sinensis in Bhutan, by Paul Cannon et al.
Caterpillar Fungus of the Tibetan Plateau, by Lucas Crouch
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

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

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