Tibetan Buddhist leaders gathered in Dharamshala to discuss women’s education and ordination
Sixteen days of prayer, diplomacy, and national reflection reveal Bhutan’s emerging Dharma-guided future
An in-depth conversation with a senior leader of Bhutan’s Central Monastic Body about his vision and hope for the Buddhism of the future
The respected Taiwanese Buddhist monastic Ven. Shih Chao-hwei led a historic ordination in Taiwan when bhikshunis ordained male lay practitioner Deng Rong.
Sravasti Abbey has announced that five of the abbey’s training nuns have received full monastic ordination at Fo En Si Temple in Taichung, Taiwan.
Exploring a unique manifestation of the sacred feminine in contemporary Korean Buddhism
Sakyadhita and the fourfold sangha—the path to female monasticism
Why the ordination of women on the summer solstice in Bhutan is so important
A historic step toward manifesting greater equality within the monastic institutions of the Buddhadharma
Master Wu Yin and her disciples share teachings on…
The issue of women’s empowerment in Tibetan Buddhism, especially for nuns, has been tenaciously resisted and debated about for almost 50 years. At the center the debate, we
Fifty years ago, an English woman, Freda Bedi, became one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun some time after
