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 Buddhist women in the West
The challenges and freedoms of being a Western Buddhist nun. Bringing the Dharma to Western…
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Life as a Western Buddhist nun
What it means to live as a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in the…
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Marie Scarles - Feb 26, 2016
Marie Scarles Comrades in alms
Tricycle Magazine interviews Venerable Thubten Chodron about the challenges and joys of being a monk…
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Yin Radio
- Dec 6, 2015
Women in Buddhism
The journey into Buddhism, what it's like to be a female Buddhist leader, views on…
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Daniel Aitken
- Nov 30, 2015
An American Buddhist abbess
An interview with Wisdom Publications discussing the vision for Sravasti Abbey and the recently published…
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Words of advice
Advice for monastics and the completion of the commentary on the ethical conduct chapter in…
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The purpose of monastic life
What it means to fulfill the purpose of monastic life. Guarding the mind from the…
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A monastic community
How community life is integral to monastic training. The value of monastic community and how…
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The evolution of the Dharma and the vinaya
The Buddha's milieu, and how the sangha and Buddhism spread after the Buddha's parinibbana.
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The Buddha’s life and teaching
On the purpose of bowing, recitations and offering the mandala before teachings. The Buddha's life…
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The purpose of the EML program
An introduction to the course and the challenges that we all have to look forward…
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Teachings in Australia and Indonesia
Venerable Thubten Chodron shares on a long and fruitful trip to give and receive teachings…
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