Jonathan Watts delves into the evolving landscape of gender equality and social engagement through the lens of Japanese Buddhism
It is time that Yasodhara, the Buddha’s wife, is more widely recognized as a great enlightened one with an updated date of her passing
Why the ordination of women on the summer solstice in Bhutan is so important
Supporting a global vision of the Fourfold Sangha
The issue of women’s empowerment in Tibetan Buddhism, especially for nuns, has been tenaciously resisted and debated about for almost 50 years. At the center the debate, we
Fifty years ago, an English woman, Freda Bedi, became one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun some time after
I almost never woke up to the five o’clock gong—the first gong of the day in a life, if not ruled by the gong, then
