Ulla Unger

This article is a reprint of one chapter from Dakinis: Life Stories of Female Buddhas, edited by Angelika Prenzel and published by Buddhistischer Verlag in 2007. Buddhism Today thanks the publisher for permission to publish this chapter. The book tells eleven life stories from the time when Diamond Way Buddhism was blooming in India and Tibet. They show how people, by applying these views and techniques, can use personal challenges for development, take responsibility for oneself and one’s environment, and above all, reach inner freedom and lasting happiness. Hannah Nydahl said about this book, “We don’t so much learn the same meditations, but rather use the biographies as motivation for our own practice and development here and now.”