by Thanissara As a young nun, one day I was distractedly flipping through a series of small cards that depicted, in the artistic style f a Thai temple, the t...

by Susan Szpakowski Inspired by our Women of Wisdom conversation about social action. Let’s just say the Buddha walks through a membrane into this time and p...

by Pema Chödrön When I was about six years old I received the essential bodhichitta teaching from an old woman sitting in the sun. I was walking by her house...

by Lama Tsultrim Allione Feeding our demons rather than fighting them might seem to contradict the conventional Western approach to what assails us, but it t...

by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo To me the special female quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarity. It cuts through—esp...

by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo In Tibetan Buddhism in the West ••• “Sometimes, even if the lama is sitting in front of you, you can feel there’s a thousand miles b...

by Jack Jenkins In Think Progress Rev. angel Kyodo williams doesn’t like stereotypes.  That’s not entirely surprising, since she also seems to enjoy shatteri...

by Nora Bateson I keep hearing people say we have a crisis of leadership. I agree. But the leadership required now is not old-school leadership. Whatever lea...

by Susan Szpakowski In our study circle, we have been exploring the lives of women practitioners and teachers. We want to know about their experience, how th...

by Rikke Braren Lauritzen A glimpse into everyday life within a contemporary Tibetan nunnery, as experienced by a Western woman. Excerpted from LEVEKUNST art...

by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche This is what I know about my mother, and what has been told to me by the people who knew her. When she was young, she had a very lov...

Mandala: What inspired you to write this book? Vicki Mackenzie: I never met Freda Bedi. It was such a shame. But from my earliest days in the Dharma, I heard...