Buddhist nuns
Guidance from teachers of various Buddhist traditions on the importance of ensuring that women experience full equality in their opportunity to practice and teach the Dharma.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The benefits of establishing precepts
The reasons that the Buddha cited for establishing monastic precepts, for the benefit of practitioners…
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The six harmonies of the sangha
The fundamental principles that bring about harmony in the sangha community.
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The value of a sangha community
How living in a sangha community supports monastic life, and how a sangha community benefits…
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Buddhism and culture
How our worldly concerns follow us to the monastery, and how the development of Buddhism…
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A mirror for our spiritual journey
The Buddha's life story and how it offers a model for our own spiritual journey.
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Interview with Interfaith Voices
Interview with a Catholic nun about life as a Buddhist nun.
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The heart connection between monastics and laypeople
The verses for laypeople who offer food to nourish the sangha, and the sangha which…
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Buddhist precepts regarding food
The Buddhist perspective on fasting and how practitioners keep Buddhist precepts related to food.
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Kindness vitamins: An interview
Venerable Thubten Chodron shares on how Buddhist practice has changed her life on the Third…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Bringing the kathina ceremony to the West
What the kathina ceremony means to the Sravasti Abbey community.
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi The significance of the kathina ceremony
The story of how and why the Buddha introduced the kathina ceremony for the sangha.
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Interview with Tibetan Center Hamburg Magazine
The challenges of being a Buddhist nun in the West and what was learned from…
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