Miriam Levering

Miriam Levering is a professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee. She has written scholarly articles on Miaozong, Miaodao, and Dogen’s encouragement of male students to take women as their teachers.

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Who Was Miaozong?

Who Was Miaozong?

Miriam Levering on the life of Miaozong, a laywoman turned abbess who stood her ground in dharma battles with some of the great Chan masters of her day.