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 Jigme Working with expectations
False expectations we may approach ordination with, and the importance of practicing self-compassion to overcome…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Going forth
A teaching from the Buddhist ordination ceremony text, focusing on the attitude to have when…
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The importance of motivation for ordaining
The importance of motivation when ordaining, and how to work with our expectations of monastic…
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What the Buddha faced in his life
What the Buddha faced in his life, and how the monastic community was established.
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Venerable Thubten Rinchen Connecting women scientists and Buddhist nuns
A physics professor shares about her experience teaching Tibetan Buddhist nuns as part of the…
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Geshe Chopa Tenzin Lhadron From goatherd to geshe
Geshe Chopa Tenzin Lhadron describes her journey from rural Ladakh with minimal opportunities for education,…
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Venerable Thubten Jampa The benefits of living in a monastic community
Venerable Jampa reflects on the benefits to be gained by living in a community of…
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The ten benefits of monastic precepts
The ten reasons the Buddha gave for establishing the precepts cover benefiting the the individual…
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Bhikshunis propagate the Dharma
Venerable Master Jingliang of the Buddhist Association of the Republic of China talks about the…
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The World Buddhist Bhikshuni Association is establis...
The world's first international organization formed by bhikshunis is established in November 2016.
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Presenting the first Global Awards for Outstanding C...
The first Global Awards for Outstanding Contributions of Commended Bhikshunis were awarded by Taiwan’s Chinese…
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Reflections from Asian teaching tour
Venerables Thubten Chodron and Thubten Damcho share their experience on a recent trip, traveling throughout…
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