Buddhism’s Second-Class Citizens
By paying lip service to female empowerment but not materially supporting Western female monastics, we leave them—and the future of Tibetan Buddhism in the West—in doubt.
Ayya Yeshe
Ayya Yeshe is an Australian Buddhist nun who ordained in 2001. She is the director of the Bodhicitta Foundation and the Kalyanamitra Foundation and the author of Everyday Enlightenment. She was ordained by Chobgye Trichen Rinpoche and took full ordination with Thich Nhat Hanh. ayyayeshe.wordpress.com.
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