Buddhist nuns

Guidance from teachers of various Buddhist traditions on the importance of ensuring that women experience full equality in their opportunity to practice and teach the Dharma.

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Shantideva Teachings in Singapore

Chapter 3: Verses 10-20

How to look at our experiences of hurt or betrayal from a Dharma point of…

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A Nun's Life

Becoming a Western Buddhist nun

How Buddhist monastic ordination is becoming established in the West.

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Venerable Chodron standing with Venerable Snim, both smiling.
Buddhist Worldview

Spiritual growth in daily life

A Korean nun studying transpersonal psychology brings her questions about the Mahayana practice to Venerable…

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Gotami House in Winter, surrounded by icy trees.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

Monasteries as the conscience of society

The vision behind Sravasti Abbey, the benefits of living the monastic life, and using community…

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Venerable Thubten Chodron smiling happily.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

Founding donor’s day

The birth of Sravasti Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the U.S.

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A group of young novice Buddhist nuns in prayer.
Theravada Tradition

The revival of bhikkhunī ordination in the Theravāda...

Legal and moral issues involved in the revival of the Theravāda Bhikkhunī Sangha.

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Happy tibetan nuns.
Full Ordination for Nuns

Bhikshuni vinaya and ordination lineages

A summary report by Alex Berzin of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role…

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Venerable Jampa Tsedroen, a chief organizer of the The First International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha in Hamburg, Germany.
Full Ordination for Nuns

Women in the sangha

Reflections on the First International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha in Hamburg,…

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Audience at the The First International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha in Hamburg, Germany.
Full Ordination for Nuns

Full ordination for women

An interview with Buddhadharma about full ordination for women and the conference in Hamburg 2007.

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Tibetan Tradition

Bhikshuni ordination in the Tibetan tradition

Support of the establishment of bhikshuni ordination in the Tibetan tradition.

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Venerable Chodron smiling, standing in front of a bright green tree.
Tibetan Tradition

Multi-tradition ordination (short version)

Detailed research establishing a precedent in Tibet where ordination was given together by monks from…

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Venerable standing in front of sunflowers, smiling.
Western Monastics

Living as a Western monastic

A short article that examines the hurdles in going for ordination and living as a…

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