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Tricycle
February 5, 2018
My first teacher, a Sikkimese Buddhist nun, once likened the development of a meditation practice to being an expectant mother. ... The 12th-century Tibetan meditation teacher Gampopa suggested in his work “The Precious Garland of the Supreme Path” that when our practice begins to coalesce we ought to protect it as weÃÂ ...
HERE. NOW
January 30, 2018
Such an example was set by a group of 200 Buddhist nuns and monks from Nepal who cycled into Orissa to spread awareness about a pollution-free environment, women empowerment and ... The nunnery is home to about 400 nuns aged between 9 and 42 drawn from Nepal, India, Tibet, and Bhutan.
Iowa State Daily
January 24, 2018
This is what Buddhist Nun Dr. Yuan Hao told more than 200 people in the Memorial Union Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. Community members, students and faculty alike filled the Sun Room to hear Hao's philosophies about mental states. A PhD in chemical engineering, Hao went on to study Buddhism at Larung GarÃÂ ...
Iowa State Daily
January 22, 2018
23rd when Yuan Hao, ordained Buddhist nun and chemical engineering Ph.D., will lecture in the Memorial Union's Sun Room at 7 p.m.. The lecture is free to attend and is cosponsored by Dizang Qi Buddhism Club and ISU's Committee on Lectures. Hao's philosophies seek to balance rational and scientificÃÂ ...
Oneonta Daily Star
January 8, 2018
She is now a bestselling author and a famous Tibetan Buddhist nun. "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg was recommended by Bridget. It is widely considered to be a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender and has been translated into numerous languages. Library Hours: 9 a.m. to 8ÃÂ ...
Tricycle (blog)
October 23, 2017
The Dalai Lama is happy that a group of 20 Tibetan Buddhist nuns have earned geshema degrees, a high level of scholarship previously reserved only for ... in 1987, after monastics started flooding across the border into India, many of them traumatized by repression in Tibet by the Chinese government.
ABC Local
September 6, 2017
After an accident drew her to Buddhism, in 1977 Robina was ordained as one of the first western nuns in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She began editing Buddhist publications and teaching. Then a young prisoner in a Californian jail wrote to Robina asking her some questions about the Buddha. His letterÃÂ ...
Economic Times
August 28, 2017
Emma Slade is an unlikely Buddhist nun in the Himalayas. In red monastic robes, flashing an eager smile, the tall British woman has been shadowing people around the corridors of the Royal University of Bhutan where book lovers have congregated for Mountain Echoes, Bhutan's annual literary festival.
Tibet Post International
August 18, 2017
Note left by Buddhist nun from Larung Gar of Tibet confirms suicide ... Dharamshala — A suicide note left by a Buddhist nun from Larung Gar Institute, the largest Tibetan Buddhist center in the world, strongly expressed her ... A suicide note left by one of the Buddhist nuns has recently appeared public.
Tricycle (blog)
August 9, 2017
These active Buddhist nuns are helping women in India and Nepal to empower themselves through martial arts. ... On Aug.16, the nuns, who belong to the Drukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, will teach women who live near the Druk Amitabha Mountain Nunnery outside of Kathmandu, Nepal, the skillsÃÂ ...
Mirror.co.uk
May 20, 2017
And now, after quitting her Tibetan Buddhist monastery in France, she spends her weekends cavorting in latex at fetish clubs. The 45-year-old told the Sunday People: “I'd been celibate for 10 years and, as a nun, my practice meant my brain was able to override my bodily needs. “Lying there having thatÃÂ ...
Lion's Roar
December 31, 1999
On January 22, Fifty Buddhist nuns from nine countries will meet at Sravasti Abbey, near Newport, Washington, for a 16-day training program on the Vinaya, the code of Buddhist ... Sravasti Abbey is the first monastery in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in the U.S. with English teachings and practices.
India.com
March 25, 2017
She is a Nepalese Buddhist nun and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal and is known for bringing many Tibetan Buddhist chants and feast songs to mainstream audiences. She is also the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Nepal. She hasÃÂ ...
Durham Herald Sun
March 21, 2017
Finkel reads all of the literature he can find on hermits and solitude: Thoreau, Edward Abbey, the memoirs of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. He explores the need for aloneness, the damage of solitary confinement. He looks into Asperger's syndrome (just in caseÃÂ ...
Your Local Guardian
March 20, 2017
A Tibetan Buddhist nun is asking strangers for cash to fund her PhD in the "understanding of ritual" - wearing LATEX.
Wandsworth Guardian
March 20, 2017
A former Tibetan Buddhist nun is asking strangers for cash to fund her PhD in the "understanding of ritual" - wearing LATEX.
Huffington Post
March 17, 2017
For ten years, she wore the simple maroon robes of a Tibetan Buddhist nun. Damcho is the Tibetan name her spiritual teacher gave her when she ordained.
Common Dreams
March 14, 2017
... college friend, was really specific, mentioning books that are helping her right now - specifically the writing of women like the recently deceased (at age 100) Detroit organizer Grace Lee Boggs and the American Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron.
Tibet Post International
March 13, 2017
Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama graced the event, which was held at the main temple in accordance with the day in 1959 when women resisted the occupation of Tibet by the Chinese. The Kashag declared ... Applauding the first batch ...
Chard & Ilminster News
March 9, 2017
AN AUSTRALIAN Buddhist nun who has been travelling the world with her teachings is set to give a special talk in Crewkerne.
The Boston Globe
March 9, 2017
The book draws on the author's visits with Knight at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility, as well as the history of those who have sought solitude - from Henry David Thoreau (whom Knight disdained) to Tibetan Buddhist nuns. "Extraordinary thingsÃÂ ...
KPAX-TV
March 6, 2017
(CNN) -- Ani Choying Drolma was not stabbed as a teenager by her Tibetan sculptor father in one of his many fits of rage. That, says Drolma, is an urban legend which has been amplified during the two decades in which she has been telling her ... Aged ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 3, 2017
Finkel reads all of the literature he can find on hermits and solitude: Thoreau, Edward Abbey, the memoirs of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. He explores the need for aloneness, the damage of solitary confinement. He looks into Asperger's syndrome (just in caseÃÂ ...
Post City
March 2, 2017
Toronto artist D'bi.young anitafrika is a Jamaican-Canadian dub poet and multi-disciplinary artist who is featured in this month's Art Gallery of Ontario First Thursdays event, which explores feminism.
Lion's Roar
February 28, 2017
He founded the original order of Buddhist nuns and monks, many of whom became great teachers also. He died in Kushinagar, located in what is now the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, about 483 BCE.
U.S. News & World Report
February 22, 2017
Tibetan Buddhist nuns try to keep warm in below-zero temperatures before a chanting session at the annual Bliss Dharma Assembly in Sichuan Province.
India.com
February 22, 2017
Dharamshala, (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Feb.22, (ANI): Tibetan Prime Minister in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Wednesday inaugurated a shelter for the former political prisoners of Tibet in Dharamshala. ... A Buddhist nun, Nawang Jonpa, who had spent one ...
Sunshine State News
February 1, 2017
Tibetan Buddhist nuns are expelled from their homes and their churches are being demolished. Just earlier today I met the wives of two Chinese rights advocates who both pleaded for the United States to champion their husbands' cases in the hopes that ...
Voice of America
December 28, 2016
A 6 second long video of Tibetan nuns in shock and on the verge of losing consciousness has come out of Tibet on December 24 which indicates that the mass evictions of students from a Buddhist institute are not only continuing, but that the scope of ...
Tibet Sun
December 24, 2016
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday awarded the Geshema (equivalent to doctorate in Buddhist philosophy) to around 20 nuns, a first in Tibetan history. The nuns were awarded certificates along with a graduation cap in the traditional ...
Lion's Roar
December 23, 2016
In July, the Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration announced that all 20 candidates for the degree had passed the examination process.
Lion's Roar
December 13, 2016
The Tibetan Nuns Project has announced that it will livestream a historic ceremony this month, in which twenty Tibetan Buddhist nuns, the first to pass all the exams necessary, will be granted their Geshema degrees. As reported by Lion's Roar, the ...
Lion's Roar
December 13, 2016
The Tibetan Nuns Project has announced that it will livestream a historic ceremony this month, in which twenty Tibetan Buddhist nuns, the first to pass all the exams necessary, will be granted their Geshema degrees. As reported by Lion's Roar, the ...
Ross-Shire Journal
December 10, 2016
Eike is about to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun and, as such, will have no use for all the trappings that she has owned for the past 51 years.
Ross-Shire Journal
December 10, 2016
Eike is about to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun and, as such, will have no use for all the trappings that she has owned for the past 51 years.
Idaho State Journal
December 9, 2016
POCATELLO - On Sunday, Dec. 11, the Portneuf Sangha and Meditation Center will show part of a filmed interview with Pema Chodron and Bill Moyers on the benefits of meditation and solitude.
Idaho State Journal
December 9, 2016
POCATELLO - On Sunday, Dec. 11, the Portneuf Sangha and Meditation Center will show part of a filmed interview with Pema Chodron and Bill Moyers on the benefits of meditation and solitude.
Radio Free Asia
December 9, 2016
An official who answered the phone at the Dapba (in Chinese, Daocheng) county religious affairs bureau in the Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture said anyone wanting to study Tibetan Buddhism must now pass a "political examination"ÃÂ ...
Radio Free Asia
December 9, 2016
An official who answered the phone at the Dapba (in Chinese, Daocheng) county religious affairs bureau in the Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture said anyone wanting to study Tibetan Buddhism must now pass a "political examination"ÃÂ ...
East Hampton Star
December 1, 2016
The center, formerly the Vajravarahi Meditation Center, is led by Gen Kelsang Norden, a Buddhist nun who has taught Buddhism and meditation for more than 20 years.
East Hampton Star
December 1, 2016
The center, formerly the Vajravarahi Meditation Center, is led by Gen Kelsang Norden, a Buddhist nun who has taught Buddhism and meditation for more than 20 years.
UNPO
November 4, 2016
The mass evictions from Larung Gar in Sichuan province continue, with the Chinese authorities forcing Buddhist nuns and monks to sign a pledge promising never to come back.
Columbia Daily Tribune
October 28, 2016
KATHMANDU, Nepal - There is one Buddhist nun everyone in Nepal knows by name - not because she's a religious icon and a UNICEF good will ambassador, or for her work running a girls school and a hospital for kidney patients.
Colorado Springs Gazette
October 28, 2016
KATHMANDU, Nepal - There is one Buddhist nun everyone in this country knows by name - not because she's a religious icon and a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, nor for her work running a girl's school and a hospital for kidney patients.
Columbia Journalism Review
October 26, 2016
Several months later, I went back to Tibet to continue reporting. Flying into Xining, the largest city on the Tibetan plateau, I caught up with Franklin. That first morning, as we stood outside our hotel, I noticed coming toward us a small robed figure ...
Pueblo Chieftain
October 22, 2016
With more than 12 albums of melodious Nepali tunes and Tibetan hymns that highlight themes of peace and harmony, the songstress in saffron robes has won hearts across the Himalayan nation and abroad.
North Idaho College Sentinel
October 20, 2016
NIC students and Coeur d'Alene community members greeted Venerable Thubten Chodron as their guest of honor by standing in silence as she entered the Lake Coeur d' Alene room and prepared to give a speech on Oct. 11.
China Post
October 19, 2016
"I am totally against the conservative, conventional idea of a Buddhist nun," the 45-year-old nun said. Some people "think a Buddhist nun should be someone who does not come out in the media so much, who is isolated ... always in a monastery, always shy.
Lion's Roar
October 18, 2016
Buddhist nun and musician Ani Choying Drolma has been making headlines recently with the likes of The Seattle Times, for her simultaneous roles as both a Buddhist nun and one of Nepal's biggest musical stars. Drolma has recorded more than 12 albumsÃÂ ...
Deccan Chronicle
October 16, 2016
There is one Buddhist nun everyone in Nepal knows by name - not because she's a religious icon and a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, nor for her work running a girl's school and a hospital for kidney patients.
