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The deposed civilian leader has been detained since February 1. Plus, LGBTQ monk and makeup artist is named one of TIME’s 2021 Next Generation Leaders, and a climate report reveals uprooted livelihoods in Tibet. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
The First Free Women: Original Poetry Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, republished in June of this year, gives new life to poems in the Therigatha.
On the maternal love and power of Mahapajapati, the Buddha’s stepmother
“A life of debts I could never repay / pushing in on all sides / like the weight of the sea.”
A new class of nuns engages in fierce debates for the geshema, the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhism that was off limits to women for centuries.
“Daughters of Buddha” is a project that documents the daily lives of nuns for a Western audience.
Early Buddhist nuns stand up to the demon Mara, in this context a symbol of aggression and misogyny, and face him down.
Full ordination for nuns—a status that has been denied women for almost a thousand years—has been revived in Tibetan Buddhism.
The foreign correspondent’s new book explores both the solitude and the community of monasticism for women.
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