Buddhistdoor View: 21 June – Auspicious Conditions to Grow the Bhikshuni Order
Buddhistdoor Global
2 July 2022
Why the ordination of women on the summer solstice in Bhutan is so important
Awakening: An Interview with Ven. Miao Jing on the First International Buddhist Bhikkhuni Forum
Harsha Menon, MA, MFA
17 July 2018
Supporting a global vision of the Fourfold Sangha
Nuns in the Tibetan Tradition: Latest Developments and Future Prospects
Dominique Butet
2 June 2017
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
Freda Bedi: The Making of a Buddhist Nun
Andrew Whitehead
12 August 2016
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
A Glimpse of My Time at the Sakya College for Nuns
Fiona White
8 August 2014
I almost never woke up to the five o’clock gong—the first gong of the day in a life, if not ruled by the gong, then