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Aung San Suu Kyi’s Lawyer Says He’s Not Allowed to Speak About Her Case

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…

By Alison Spiegel, Amanda Lim Patton, and Daniel Ilan Cohen Thin

Oct 16, 2021

Culture Poetry

Five Powerful Poems Inspired by Some of the First Buddhist Women

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.

By Tricycle

Aug 31, 2021

Ideas Women

The Aunt with a Grandmotherly Mind

On the maternal love and power of Mahapajapati, the Buddha’s stepmother

By Pamela Weiss

Dec 04, 2020

hands holding bowl of rice illustration of a therigatha poem

CultureMagazine | Parting Words

Mutta—Free

"A life of debts I could never repay / pushing in on all sides / like the weight of the sea."

By Mutta, Adapted by Matty Weingast

Winter 2019

Tibetan Buddhism

The Rising Generation of Female Tibetan Buddhist Leaders

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.

By Jennifer Ladonne

Feb 07, 2019

Ideas Tibetan Buddhism

PHOTOS: Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in the Himalayas

"Daughters of Buddha" is a project that documents the daily lives of nuns for a Western audience.

By Dominique Butet and Olivier Adam

Jul 20, 2018

IdeasMagazine | Column

Of Mara and Men

Early Buddhist nuns stand up to the demon Mara, in this context a symbol of aggression and misogyny, and face him down.

By Andrew Olendzki

Summer 2018

IdeasMagazine | Feature

Recently, Under the Bodhi Tree

Full ordination for nuns—a status that has been denied women for almost a thousand years—has been revived in Tibetan Buddhism.

By Janet Gyatso

Winter 2017

Ideas Review

Review: “In Search of Buddha’s Daughters”

The foreign correspondent’s new book explores both the solitude and the community of monasticism for women.

By Liesl Schwabe

Mar 22, 2016

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Metta and Karuna: Two Heart Practices to Cultivate in Meditation and Daily Life

This Dharma Talk will explore how two heart practices, metta and karuna, can be cultivated and experienced in meditation and also in day-to-day life. Meditation teacher Devin Berry says, “The protection and focus of metta, along…

By Devin Berry

Dec 2022

buddhist nuns

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Lawyer Says He’s Not Allowed to Speak About Her Case

Five Powerful Poems Inspired by Some of the First Buddhist Women

The Aunt with a Grandmotherly Mind

Mutta—Free

The Rising Generation of Female Tibetan Buddhist Leaders

PHOTOS: Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in the Himalayas

Of Mara and Men

Recently, Under the Bodhi Tree

Review: “In Search of Buddha’s Daughters”

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