Witnessing the revival of the bhikkhuni order

Ecumenical momentum among Buddhists builds at the epicenter of the Dharma

Witnessing the revival of the female monasticism in the Buddhist world

Preserving the past for the benefit of the future

Changing lives through compassion

Tara Frances takes us to the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, a Theravada Buddhist retreat center that is at the forefront of Buddhist evolution in Australia.

Enhancing communal harmony at the end of the annual rains retreat

Samaneri Gautami on her path towards becoming a bhikkhuni

An examination of equal opportunity for ordination and Buddhist education for women

Samaneri Gautami on her path to becoming a bhikkhuni

100 years since Anagarika Shri Munindra's birth

How Buddhist values can contribute to poverty alleviation

After a long interlude in which the Theravada Bhikkhuni Sangha was presumed extinct, the Sri Lankan lineage was re-established in 1998 at Bodhgaya with the help of Chinese Buddhist nuns. Recent progre

Weaving the Buddha into the Burmese identity Legends are what fill the uncertain space between history and fiction. Some of the most popular legends tell where historical figures might have gone: did