Sravasti Abbey has announced that five of the abbey’s training nuns have received full monastic ordination at Fo En Si Temple in Taichung, Taiwan.
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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
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The monastic ordinations performed in Taiwan are renowned among the sanghas of the various Buddhist traditions for being extremely rigorous. The Chinese practice entails long
