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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Rejoicing in living at Sravasti Abbey
Venerable Thubten Jampa shares how living at the Abbey and practicing with the community has…
View PostWomen in Western Buddhism
An excerpt from Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in…
View PostOrdination lineages
How ordination is different in the three living Buddhist traditions, and why the path to…
View PostSelf-confidence across monastic cultures
How monastics relate to money and idle talk, the rules governing nuns, and self-confidence for…
View PostAfter the Buddha awakened
Creating a solid motivation for ordaining, how the Buddha taught every type of person, and…
View PostSharing the Dharma in Australia
Venerable Thubten Chodron rejoices in the opportunity to teach the Dharma in Australia.
View PostSpiritual liberation
A community of Buddhist nuns, the Order of Siladhara, provides opportunity for women seeking the…
View PostThe legality of bhikkhunī ordination
Looking at the legal issues surrounding the revival of full ordination for nuns.
View PostHow to grow a monastic
A personal account of the 19th Annual Western Buddhist Monastic Gathering.
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