Texts and Articles

Assorted articles on "women and buddhism"

• Shelley Anderson: "Be a lesbian"
  from: Ursache und Wirkung, 2021, "Buddhism under the Rainbow"
  
  
• Freeing the mind - Prison Chaplaincy in France
• Interview with Lama Droupgyu Karma
  (from "Sagesses Bouddhistes" Winter 2020/2021)
  (PDF, file size: 144KB)
  
  
• Buddhist Nuns: Perspectives for the 21st Century
  Buddhistische Nonnen: Perspektiven für das 21. Jahrhundert
• by Gabriela Frey
  (published in "Buddhismus aktuell" 02/2019)
  (PDF, Dateigröße: 216KB)
  
  
• How clinging to gender identity subverts enlightenment
  by Rita M. Gross
  published in "Inquiring Mind", revised version in Buddhismus Aktuell, 2015
  (PDF, file size: 130 KB)
  
  
• Are religions a place of emancipation for women? Progress and setbacks
  Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, 21st June 2016
  
  
• Rinchen Khando Choegyal: Graduation of the first ever Tibetan Geshemas
  
  
• Women in Buddhism
  Speech at the Governing Council Meeting
  of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)
  Bhikṣuṇī Jampa Tsedroen (Dr. Carola Roloff)
  December 2014, Rajgia Bihar, India
  (PDF, file size: 6.5MB)
  
  
• The Karmapa Makes Nuns' History
• By Ven. Lhundup Damchö Finnegan
  02-2014
  (download PDF, size: 287KB)
  
  
• Blossoms of the Dharma: The Contribution of Western Nuns in Transforming Gender Bias in Tibetan Buddhism
• by Elizabeth Swanepoel, University of Pretoria
  (download PDF, size: 224KB)
  
  
• Does Buddhism respect Human Rights of women?
• Investigation in the Council of Europe of the limitations of traditions, habits, cultures & religions to achieve full gender equality
• by Gabriela Frey
  Sakyadhita Congress, January 2013
  (download PDF, size: 165KB)
  
  
• Nuns need a lobby
• by Bhikṣuṇī Jampa Tsedroen (Dr. Carola Roloff)
  published in "Tibet und Buddhismus" 2012-02
  (download PDF, size: 105KB)
  
  
• Interview with H.H. the Dalai Lama on Ordination of Nuns
  published in "Buddhismus aktuell" 2011-01
  (download PDF, size: 118KB)
  
  
• The Time Has Come - Former nuns Thanissara, Jitindriya and Elizabeth Day look at the injustice of the denial of full ordination for nuns
  published in "buddhadharma: the practitioner’s quarterly summer 2010"
  (download PDF, size: 444KB)
  
  
• Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo: Cultivating Faith
  lecture held as "Dharma Talk" during the 11th Sakyadhita Conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, January 2010
  (download PDF, size: 58KB)
  
  
• Hei Ki Jan Pearse: International Zen Association Protocol (download PDF, size: 42KB)
  
  
• Venerable Tsuiltrim Tenzin Choesang: How to Address Buddhist Monastics and Buddhist Teachers (download PDF, size: 158KB)
  
  
• Venerable Tsultrim Tenzin Choesang: Protocols for Interacting with Ordained Sangha in the Tibetan Tradition (download PDF, size: 124KB)
  
  
• Establishing Full Ordination
  A response to necessary research regarding the lineage of Bhiksuni Vinaya by the Committee of Western Bhiksunis
  (download PDF, size: 71KB)
  
  
  
• Karma Lekshe Tsomo: Buddhist nuns in the global community

• H.H. Sakya Trizin: A Short Account of the Life of Jetsun Chime Tenpai Nyima
  (as told by H.H. Sakya Trizin, Sakya Jetsunma Chime Luding's brother)