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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The heart connection between monastics and laypeople
The verses for laypeople who offer food to nourish the sangha, and the sangha which…
View PostBuddhist precepts regarding food
The Buddhist perspective on fasting and how practitioners keep Buddhist precepts related to food.
View PostKindness vitamins: An interview
Venerable Thubten Chodron shares on how Buddhist practice has changed her life on the Third…
View PostBringing the kathina ceremony to the West
What the kathina ceremony means to the Sravasti Abbey community.
View PostThe significance of the kathina ceremony
The story of how and why the Buddha introduced the kathina ceremony for the sangha.
View PostInterview with Tibetan Center Hamburg Magazine
The challenges of being a Buddhist nun in the West and what was learned from…
View PostBuddhist women in the West
The challenges and freedoms of being a Western Buddhist nun. Bringing the Dharma to Western…
View PostLife as a Western Buddhist nun
What it means to live as a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in the…
View PostComrades in alms
Tricycle Magazine interviews Venerable Thubten Chodron about the challenges and joys of being a monk…
View PostWomen in Buddhism
The journey into Buddhism, what it's like to be a female Buddhist leader, views on…
View PostAn American Buddhist abbess
An interview with Wisdom Publications discussing the vision for Sravasti Abbey and the recently published…
View PostWords of advice
Advice for monastics and the completion of the commentary on the ethical conduct chapter in…
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