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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…

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.

The Aunt with a Grandmotherly Mind
On the maternal love and power of Mahapajapati, the Buddha’s stepmother

CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Mutta—Free
"A life of debts I could never repay / pushing in on all sides / like the weight of the sea."

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.

PHOTOS: Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in the Himalayas
"Daughters of Buddha" is a project that documents the daily lives of nuns for a Western audience.

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.

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.

Review: “In Search of Buddha’s Daughters”
The foreign correspondent’s new book explores both the solitude and the community of monasticism for women.

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