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
There is no gate or decorated signboard at Phaung Daw Oo Integrated Monastic Education School (PDO) in Mandalay, and its entrance obscured by advertising billboards,
Humanistic Buddhism comes to Madagascar, Malawi…
Twenty women made history at Drepung Loseling Monastery in Mundgod on 22 December, becoming the first Tibetan Buddhist nuns to be awarded the title Geshema .
Some 25 kilometres west of Jakarta lies the megacity of Tangerang—the 8th most populated suburb in the world, with a population of 1.4 million.* In
A group of students wallows in a pool of mud; not far away, another group is dumping dung into a dugout to make organic fertilizer—hardly what
The highest-ranking Buddhist leader of Mongolia, who turns 60 this year, is worried. He is particularly worried about the growing materialism and intensifying activities of
In the center of the room, a group of artists are hunched over their work stations, each focused on his or her individual task. With
Nuns from seven nunneries participating in the annual Great Winter Debate—gathered in Dharamsala to make a debate presentation before the Dalai Lama.
As my husband Jason and I prepared to welcome Adelaide into our lives nearly ten months ago, I thought about the kind of home we
“At the end of the day, education is brainwashing. Brainwashing is inevitable. We human beings love doing that. We are already brainwashed—we don’t know otherwise.
While my husband and I waited for the birth of our daughter nine months ago, I spent much of my pregnancy contemplating how I would
