🗣️ Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities (A ✨NEW✨, free, 62-minute podcast)
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Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities
The nunneries and monasteries are trying to respond to these critiques and to this question of identity but, as often times with religious institutions, the changes are slower than the changes in the societies around them.
Monkhood and Priesthood in Newar Buddhism
The position of the family-priest is legitimated by the application of a fundamental [Tantric] Buddhist idea: the hierarchy of Disciples’ Way (śrāvakayāna), Great Way (mahāyāna) and Diamond Way (vajrayāna). Thus the family-priesthood in Newar Buddhism, exercised by the Vajrācāryas alone, is justified in terms of the images of bodhisattva (altruistic saint) and siddha (accomplished one), the ideals of Great Way and Diamond Way respectively. Vajrācāryas are monks, householders and priests all at once and the contradiction this seems to entail in modern eyes is avoided traditionally by viewing this sequence as a hierarchy.
Ground, Path, and Fruition: Teaching Zebrafish Development to Tibetan Buddhist Monks in India
The debate that we staged among the monks in our very last activity session about whether to edit the human genome was outstanding, and demonstrated how effective the monks are as thinkers once I had presented the underlying science and issues involved. And despite the fact that when they come to the West, they often seem very quiet and serious, in the monastery, they are very boisterous and willing to try anything.
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