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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Young people knead bread together in the Sravasti Abbey kitchen.
Mindful Eating

Buddhist precepts regarding food

The Buddhist perspective on fasting and how practitioners keep Buddhist precepts related to food.

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For Young People

Kindness vitamins: An interview

Venerable Thubten Chodron shares on how Buddhist practice has changed her life on the Third…

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Monastic Rites

The significance of the kathina ceremony

The story of how and why the Buddha introduced the kathina ceremony for the sangha.

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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
A Nun's Life

Interview with Tibetan Center Hamburg Magazine

The challenges of being a Buddhist nun in the West and what was learned from…

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Venerable giving a teaching at Tibetisches Zentrum e.V. in Hamburg.
Western Monastics

Buddhist women in the West

The challenges and freedoms of being a Western Buddhist nun. Bringing the Dharma to Western…

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A Nun's Life

Life as a Western Buddhist nun

What it means to live as a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in the…

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Portrait of Venerable Chodron
Western Monastics

Comrades in alms

Tricycle Magazine interviews Venerable Thubten Chodron about the challenges and joys of being a monk…

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Venerable Jampa Tsedroen, Venerable Thubten Chodron, and Venerable Heng Ching sit at a table filled with research materials.
A Nun's Life

Women in Buddhism

The journey into Buddhism, what it's like to be a female Buddhist leader, views on…

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Venerable Chodron during an interview.
Western Monastics

An American Buddhist abbess

An interview with Wisdom Publications discussing the vision for Sravasti Abbey and the recently published…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2015

Words of advice

Advice for monastics and the completion of the commentary on the ethical conduct chapter in…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2015

The purpose of monastic life

What it means to fulfill the purpose of monastic life. Guarding the mind from the…

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