(AP) — As Buddhism has grown in the West and Asian Buddhist societies have been influenced by feminism, there’s more awareness of the importance of women’s leadership. This story is part of a series ...

FREMONT—In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaven heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and ...

In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist monastic traditions in the ...

(RNS) — On Tuesday (June 21), the Je Khenpo, the senior Buddhist authority in Bhutan, began ordaining a group of 144 women as bhikshunis, or female monks, at the Ramthangkha monastery in the tiny ...

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Boodsabann Chanthawong recently joined a growing number of women defying generations of Thai Buddhist tradition by becoming ordained as novice monks at an ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In Taiwan, there are far more Buddhist nuns than Buddhist monks. But in other countries like Thailand, ...

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, Gendering Religious Practices in Japan (2017), pp. 75-101 (28 pages) This article explores issues of temple succession (seshū), soteriology, and ...

Thailand's top Buddhist authority bars women from becoming monks. They can only become white-cloaked nuns, who are routinely treated as domestic servants. Many here believe women are inferior beings ...

As if a Mediterranean breeze wafted through Wallace Pack Unit's steel-reinforced walls and columns, the aromas of hummus, falafel and fattoush permeated the prison's classroom. “I've forgotten food ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, born in England, has ...

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, born in England, has devoted her life to attaining enlightenment in a female form — at one stage spending years isolated in a cave in the Himalayas to follow the rigorous path ...