Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions

Author: Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka
Editor: Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge
Contributor: Foreword by Susan Stryker
Content: xi + 238 pp., ill.
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: New York: Fordham University Press
Description: First publication of the autobiography of a doctor and Buddhist monastic novice who began a transition from female to male in 1939.
Main subject: Autobiography and Biography
Religion and Spirituality
Sociology and Social Issues
ISBN: 9780823274802 (cloth); 9780823280391 (pap.); 9780823274819 (ebook)
Citation: Dillon, Michael/Lobzang Jivaka. Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions. Edited by Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed July 6, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL4333.
Updated: 06-11-2025

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