A Nun's Life
What’s it like to be a Buddhist nun? Venerable Thubten Chodron and other nuns share about their lives.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Life as a Western Buddhist nun
What it means to live as a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in the…
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Yin Radio - Dec 6, 2015
Yin Radio Women in Buddhism
The journey into Buddhism, what it's like to be a female Buddhist leader, views on…
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Lea Wee
- May 31, 2015
The call of monasticism
An interview with Venerable Thubten Damcho by "The Straits Times" on how she came to…
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Cultivating compassion
How Venerable Thubten Chodron came to choose the Buddhist path, and the reasons for cultivating…
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The life of Venerable Sek Fatt Kuan: compassion in a...
Through the force of her compassion, a Buddhist nun overcomes difficulties to establish a home…
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You’re becoming a what?
Venerable Thubten Chodron shares her experience as a Westerner who made the decision to become…
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Venerable Bhikshuni Master Wu Yin
- Aug 10, 2009
Where is your sky?
An educator discusses how nuns can continue learning throughout their lives.
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Women working together
At a conference around the birthday of Bhikshuni Wu Yin, the necessary actions for encouragement…
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Bhikkhu Bodhi 
Becoming a Western Buddhist nun
How Buddhist monastic ordination is becoming established in the West.
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Vasana Chinvarakorn
- Jan 28, 2007
The wisdom of kindness
The moving life story of one of the first Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns and her…
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Gender equality/inequality in Buddhism
How our own minds create our experience of gender equality. Addressing "problematic" text, situation of…
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