Developments from its foundation in 2005 to the present

Women in Myanmar skip water-throwing festivities to ordain for week-long holiday

Fighting for gender equality in Afghanistan

Female monastics make history in southern India

Event to be livestreamed on 22 December

Ani Choying Drolma, musician and humanitarian

Tremors felt as as far away as Bangkok, Calcutta, and Dhaka

Nuns become first Tibetan women to achieve advanced qualification

Killings in Bangladesh fan fears of exodus of religious minorities