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Women can’t catch a break, it seems. This was as true in the Buddha’s time as it is today. The nun Sundarinanda pretended to be ill and skipped a meal in order to avoid a sexual predator, but she was pursued and violated by him anyway. The nun Citta sneaked out of her sleeping area […]
By Andrew Olendzki
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By James Shaheen
Five stories from Tricycle’s archives that shine a light on the achievements and struggles of Buddhist women
By Tricycle
Our supposedly progressive culture could learn some feminist lessons from the 13th-century Zen master.
By Matthew Gindin
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.
By Ayya Yeshe
Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo reflects on the role of women in Buddhism and the work that still needs to be done.
By Donna Lynn Brown
This Mother’s Day, we practice learning to see all beings as our mother in order to shift toward a kinder way of being.
By Marie Scarles
How obscure stories about Maya can help us untangle the misogynistic knots from Buddhism’s past.
By Wendy Garling
Stars at Dawn integrates forgotten stories of influential women into the Buddha’s time-honored biography.
By Lauren Krauze
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