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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Venerable Thubten Chodron Sustaining our monastic life
How a long-term bodhicitta motivation is essential to sustaining ordained life and the importance of…
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The value of a sangha community
The meaning of sangha and the benefits of living in a monastic community.
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Living a happy monastic life
The key factors that lead to having a happy mind as a monastic and living…
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Monastic precepts and community life
How monastic precepts and community life are set up to help work with our afflictions…
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The five precepts
How the five precepts guide how we live and relate to each other for the…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro 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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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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Researching the bhikshuni lineage
Can the bhikshuni ordination be traced back to the time of the Buddha? Bhikshuni Sangye…
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Venerable Thubten Pende Seniority in the sangha
Reflection on the monastic hierarchy helps a "baby" nun to grow in her Dharma practice.
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Buddhism, modernism and mindfulness
A discussion on topics including Buddhist and secular mindfulness, the value of monasticism, and the…
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Venerable Thubten Lamsel 
The rise of women in Buddhism: Has the ice been broken?
In this panel discussion recorded in 2014, Venerable Thubten Chodron and others consider the problems…
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