(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 ...

When the nonsectarian Dolma Ling Nunnery transitioned to female leadership earlier this year, for the first time in its three ...

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 ...

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 ...

A devotee has her hair cut by a female Buddhist monk during a mass female Buddhist novice monk ordination ceremony at the Songdhammakalyani monastery, Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand, December 5, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

CAS is pleased to announce a new course in Asian religions this spring: Women in Buddhism. Buddhist texts depict an array of female figures: cajoling goddesses, prostitute temptresses, enlightened ...

(The Conversation) — Traditionally, Buddhism has been opposed to women taking on leadership roles. However, nuns in many Buddhist-majority countries are challenging the patriarchal rules. (The ...

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

In this Aug. 23, 2015, photo, women Buddhist monks stand beneath an image of Buddha at the Songdhammakalyani Monastery in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. The Venerable Dhammananda likes to say that “Buddha ...