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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A group of shiksamanas in the Abbey library reading their precepts at the round table.
Living in Community

The benefits of living in community

Venerable Chodron talks with a monastic about what it means to take full ordination.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2021

Monasticism in the West

A question and answer session about Buddhist monasticism in the West.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2021

Sustaining our monastic life

How a long-term bodhicitta motivation is essential to sustaining ordained life and the importance of…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2021

Living a happy monastic life

The key factors that lead to having a happy mind as a monastic and living…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2021

Monastic precepts and community life

How monastic precepts and community life are set up to help work with our afflictions…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2021

The five precepts

How the five precepts guide how we live and relate to each other for the…

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Meditation

How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye ...

The main obstacles for beginners learning to meditate and how to overcome them to achieve…

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Monastic Life

The value of monastic life and communities in the 21...

In modern Western society, monastics support their communities in part by acting as the conscience…

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Full Ordination for Nuns

Researching the bhikshuni lineage

Can the bhikshuni ordination be traced back to the time of the Buddha? Bhikshuni Sangye…

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Venerable Pende standing next to Venerable Chodron, holding her robes and smiling.
Becoming a Monastic

Seniority in the sangha

Reflection on the monastic hierarchy helps a "baby" nun to grow in her Dharma practice.

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