Search results for “bhikshuni ordination”
Venerable Thubten Chodron Western Buddhist nuns in the Tibetan tradition
Venerable Chodron explores the history of Buddhist nuns in the West through her own experiences,…
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Imbued with the Buddhist worldview
How the monastic mind is imbued with the Buddhist worldview and differs from worldly values.
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The rise of women in Buddhism: Has the ice been broken?
In this panel discussion recorded in 2014, Venerable Thubten Chodron and others consider the problems…
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Yanzhen Shi - Feb 25, 2019
Buddhist religious practitioners should serve as soc...
In an interview with Dharma Drum Mountain, Venerable Chodron explains how the monastics of Sravasti…
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Sravasti Abbey hosts “Living Vinaya in the Wes...
A historic event at Sravasti Abbey: 49 nuns gather to learn and live the Vinaya…
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi No small thing: Encouragement from China
The Abbey celebrates the arrival of 32 volumes of the annotated edition of the Nanshan…
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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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Tracy Simmons A Tibetan Buddhist nun blazes a trail for other wome...
Tracy Simmons interviews Venerable Thubten Chodron about the founding of the Abbey.
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After the Buddha awakened
Creating a solid motivation for ordaining, how the Buddha taught every type of person, and…
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Janet Gyatso
- May 17, 2010
That was then, this is now
Why the eight heavy rules on the ordination of women need to be changed.
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The pratimoksha vows
The various types of individual liberation vows and clarifying some confusion about the meaning and…
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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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