Karma Lekshe Tsomo

In 1985 Karma Lekshe Tsomo founded the Jamyang Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to improve educational opportunities for women and girls, and currently supports thirteen monastic study programmes in the Himalayan region of India and in Bangladesh.^[6] At a gathering at Bodhgaya in 1987 she became one of the founding members of Sakydhita (Daughters of the Buddha), which campaigns for gender equality in Buddhism.^[7] She is the director of La'i Peace Center in Waialua, Hawai'i, a resource for peace education, Buddhist studies, and community service under the auspices of Sakyadhita Hawai'i.^[8]

• Women in Buddhist Traditions (2020). New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-0342-2.
• Buddhist Femininisms and Femininities (editor) (2019). Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-7255-3.
• Eminent Buddhist Women (editor). (2014). Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-5131-2.
• Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death: Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death (2006). Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-8145-5.
• Out of the Shadows: Socially Engaged Buddhist Women in the Global Community (editor) (2006). Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications. ISBN 978-8170308492.
• Buddhist Women and Social Justice: Ideals, Challenges, and Achievements (editor) (2004). Albany New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-6254-6.
• Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream (editor) (2000). Richmond, Surrey: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-11418-2.
• Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations (editor) (1999). Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-4138-1.
• Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women. A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Dharmagupta and the Tibetan Mulasarvastivada Bhiksuni Pratimoksa Sutras (1996). Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-2238-1
• Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes (editor) (1995). Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 978-1559390477.
• Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha (editor) (1988). Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 978-0937938720.

Sara Hylton (2019). A Day in the Dharma: Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo, cofounder of Sakyadhita. Tricycle The Buddhist Review.

Rebecca Redwood French (2013). Feminism, Law, and Religion. Surrey, UK: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1409444213. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

Michaela Haas (2013). Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. Boston: Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1-4384-5131-2. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

Arvind Sharma (2009). Why I Am a Believer: Personal Reflections on Nine World Religions. Delhi: Penguin Books India. ISBN 978-0143066873. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)