Metta in Action: Buddhist Nuns in Ladakh Fight Climate Change
For the members of the Ladakh Nuns Association, environmental education, healthcare support, and dharma practice are deeply interconnected.
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The Geshema Is Born
For decades, Tibetan Buddhist nuns and their allies fought for the right to receive their religious tradition’s highest academic honor, the geshe degree (called geshema for women). The Geshema is Born follows the inspiring story of…
PHOTOS: Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in the Himalayas
"Daughters of Buddha" is a project that documents the daily lives of nuns for a Western audience.
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.
Buddhism’s Second-Class Citizens
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.
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