Bhikshuni Lineage Restored in Bhutan
Tibetan Buddhist nuns embrace the Buddha’s full path at a mass gelongma ordination event in Thimphu.
Olivier Adam
Olivier Adam works as a freelance photographer and teaches photography at a technical college in Paris. Adam documents the lives and teachings of numerous Tibetan masters around the world, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. For more than fifteen years, he has been working on a photography project focusing on the daily lives of Buddhist nuns in the Himalayas.
PHOTOS: Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in the Himalayas
"Daughters of Buddha" is a project that documents the daily lives of nuns for a Western audience.
Photos from the 15th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women
The conference was started in 1987 as a way to unite Buddhist women from different countries and traditions and reduce gender injustice.
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