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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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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Venerable Chodron smiling while sitting in front of a large TV screen showing Zoom participants.
21st Century Buddhists

Buddhism, modernism and mindfulness

A discussion on topics including Buddhist and secular mindfulness, the value of monasticism, and the…

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Venerable Lamsel smiling while cutting an apple.
Becoming a Monastic

Home

A poem about what the word "home" means for a monastic.

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Tibetan Tradition

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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