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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
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
These active Buddhist nuns are helping women in India and Nepal to empower themselves through martial arts.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
“Everything,” the late dharma teacher Rita Gross says in this new video from Yogini Archives.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
Female Buddhist leaders speak up about equality
By Reverend Patti Nakai
Ancient Zen koans come to life in 21st-century Italy.
By Susan Moon
"Otherwise, not much use," the Dalai Lama told BBC.
By Alex Caring-Lobel
In Week 1 of Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s ongoing Tricycle Retreat a participant writes: I look forward to a peer woman teacher; I have had many wonderful experiences with male teachers, but there is something more.
By TricycleBuddhism and gender, from the Lehigh University newspaper. Plus, an account of Tibetan Buddhism from the Chinese media and the story of a Tibetan refugee in Salt Lake City. Hu Jintao and Kevin Rudd.
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