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Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shift
In August 2025, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal – a record number – gathered at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in northern India to take various levels of the ...
DHARAMSHALA, India (RNS) — When the nonsectarian Dolma Ling Nunnery transitioned to female leadership earlier this year, for the first time in its three-decade history, it marked a radical shift in ...
The urban Buddhist nun and a protective rite for children in early North India -- On emptying chamber pots without looking and the urban location of Buddhist -- Nunneries in early India again -- On ...
"This is a precious human life. And we should do what we can.” Geshema Dawa Dolma, 43, recalls these words from the Dalai Lama during our phone interview. “Internal work,” she adds, “is more important ...
(The Conversation) — A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning. (The ...
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