Pali Canon
Verses of the Senior Nuns · Therīgāthā
The Elder Nuns
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
The first collection of women’s religious poetry: seventy-three nuns tell how they found freedom.
Start reading → Markdown.md ↓- Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).
- English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.
- Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.