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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.

By Emma Lewis

Apr 21, 2022

The Geshema Is Born

By Malati Rao

Jun 2021

Trike Daily Society & Environment

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

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

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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.

By Ayya Yeshe

Winter 2017

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tibetan buddhist nuns

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Metta in Action: Buddhist Nuns in Ladakh Fight Climate Change

Film Club

The Geshema Is Born

Trike Daily Society & Environment

PHOTOS: Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in the Himalayas

MagazineSociety & Environment

Recently, Under the Bodhi Tree

MagazineSociety & Environment

Buddhism’s Second-Class Citizens