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 Becoming a Western Buddhist nun
How Buddhist monastic ordination is becoming established in the West.
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Vasana Chinvarakorn - Jan 28, 2007
Vasana Chinvarakorn 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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Wong Li Za
- Jun 14, 2006
Equal opportunity for nuns
Interview with Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on her work to raise the self-esteem of…
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Inspiration to ordain
Venerable Chodron was interviewed by Mahabodhi Society of USA about the benefits of monastic life…
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“I had to start being more consistent!”
Buddhist nuns are not born in robes. What happened to Venerable Thubten Chodron such that…
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Norman New
- Nov 18, 2001
Behind the scenes with Venerable Thubten Chodron
A broad discussion about becoming a nun, founding an abbey in North America, and the…
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Life as Buddhist nun in the West
The challenges and lessons learned by a Western nun help to understand what it means…
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