On meeting a pioneering woman: feminism, Buddhism, and art

Thoughts on the future of Buddhism in the West

The Zen-inspired activism of Hiratsuka Raichō

Witnessing the revival of the bhikkhuni order

Laurence Cox charts the involvement of Irishmen and women in Buddhism

The spiritual enquiries of an American Buddhist scholar

Buddhist Studies in the academy is going through a gradual and understated trend. Yet, this trend is one of the most important stages in its intellectual evolution. Since the 1990s, Buddhist Studies h

Lore, history, and society at the far reaches of the Buddhist world

Review of Michaela Haas' book on the Buddhist feminine

Editor's note: Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo is the Branch and Chapter Coordinator of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. In this series of seven questions we presented to her, she refle

Although she is now retired, Professor Rita Gross cuts a familiar figure to her early days as an academic advocating gender equality. She remains a faithful Tibetan Buddhist, but fearless in critiquin

Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo is the Branch and Chapter Coordinator of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. In this series of seven questions we presented to her, she reflects on some key

I used to think that if there is such a thing as a next life, and I could choose to be reborn as a woman or a man, I would choose to be a man. Partly out of curiosity, and because it would make a chan

This is a modified version of an article I wrote for MouthLondon, a London youth, media and journalism magazine. The cosmopolitanism of London is one of the many reasons why I’m an Anglophile, b