Search results for “bhikshuni ordination

A person sitting in a mediation position.
Exploring Monastic Life 2010

Ethical conduct

A description of the advantages of the monastic sangha and monastic precepts in society.

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Tibetan nuns seated in a prayer hall.
Tibetan Tradition

“I will do it”

The Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa steps up to address the issue of bhikshuni full ordination in…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Dismantling personal identity

Examining how our mind puts parts together through a conceptual process and see the object…

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Venerable Chonyi standing by Venerable Chodron in the Abbey mediation hall.
Becoming a Monastic

An interview with a newly ordained monastic

Venerable Thubten Chonyi talks candidly to Awaken magazine of her decision to follow the monastic…

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Venerable Thubten Chodron sitting in meditation position and smiling happily.
Western Monastics

Buddhist education for nuns in Western countries

The ordination and education of nuns in Western countries; Sravasti Abbey as a proving ground…

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Venerable teaching at Thösamling Institute in India.
Monastic Life

How to approach Dharma practice

Practical advice on applying the Dharma in everyday life, making the teachings transform our minds…

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A statute of a giant buddha, showing the sky at the background.
Manjushri Winter Retreat 2008-09

Reflecting on dukkha to fuel renunciation

How an awareness of dissatisfaction can fuel the practice, and how silence in retreat is…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 1

Introduction to the fourth preliminary practice, the six disadvantages of cyclic existence, with an in-depth…

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Tibetan Tradition

Women—part of the basis

HHDL about the importance of full ordination for women, the study of scriptures by women…

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Venerable Jampa Tsedroen, a chief organizer of the The First International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha in Hamburg, Germany.
Full Ordination for Nuns

Women in the sangha

Reflections on the First International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha in Hamburg,…

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Group photo of monastics.
Western Buddhist Monastic Gatherings

Monastic health

Monastics practicing in the West discusses health, including how it influences practice, how it relates…

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Group photo of participants in the twelfth annual Buddhist Monastic Conference.
Western Buddhist Monastic Gatherings

Western monastic life

Monastics from different traditions practicing in the West discuss aspects of training, precepts, community life,…

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