Search results for “bhikshuni ordination

Portrait of Chi Kwang-Sunim.
Blossoms of the Dharma

The nuns in Korea

Australian-born nun in a South Korean nunnery discusses becoming a nun, a nun's life, and…

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Blossoms of the Dharma

Restoring an ancient tradition

A nun describes her experience being accepted and integrating into a Mainland Chinese community of…

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Portrait of Bhikshuni Jampa Tsedroen
Blossoms of the Dharma

A practical approach to Vinaya

The gradual approach for monastic ordination, in a Dharma center in Germany, to create a…

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Portrait of Bhikshuni Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Blossoms of the Dharma

The history of Buddhist monasticism and its Western ...

Tracing the evolution of the sangha and Vinaya. The challenges faced by the sangha in…

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Buddha in bright radiating light.
LR10 Noble Eightfold Path

Eightfold noble path

An overview of the eightfold noble path as well as an in-depth look at right…

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Painting of the Buddha's first discourse.
LR09 The Four Truths for the Aryas

Causes of the afflictions

How wrong friends, the media, and the force of habit can stir up our afflictions…

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Thubten Chodron

Cultivating the wasteland

At this year’s Triple Platform Ordination at Taiping Foen Temple in Taichung, there was an…

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Ethics in the Modern World

What is Happiness? (Part 3)

Happiness comes from our perspective, not from external sense objects or people.

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Group of people sitting in a crowded auditorium watching a presentation on a large screen.
Monastic Life

The 18th Sakyadhita conference

The 18th Sakyadhita Conference took place in Seoul, Korea, June 23–27, 2023. I did not…

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Guest read Dharma books on the Chenrezig Hall deck.
Teachings

Reading list

An extensive bibliography of resources for further study.

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