Women in Buddhism

01/04/2023

01/04/2023

Yasodhara, the woman who was married to the one who became the Buddha, is not the focus of most early Buddhist texts. She is a key player during a few moments in the Buddha’s life, but otherwise, we know little about her. Indeed, Yasodhara is so marginalized in some cases that she does not even receive a name. She is known simply as Rahulamata—Rahula’s mother.
Scholar Vanessa R. Sasson spent most of her academic career exploring the various versions of Yasodhara’s narratives. Read an excerpt from her novel, Yasodhara and the Buddha, in which she offers her own telling of Yasodhara’s story, here.

Scholar Vanessa R. Sasson tells the often untold story of Yasodhara

10/12/2022

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13/08/2022

Across Thailand a quiet revolution is underway. Hundreds of women are defying generations of Thai tradition and ordaining as Theravada Buddhist monks. Mazoe Ford follows two Thai women on a deeply spiritual quest.

Across Thailand a quiet revolution is underway. Hundreds of women are defying generations of Thai tradition and ordaining as Theravada Buddhist monks. Mazoe Ford follows two Thai women on a deeply spiritual quest. (Return)

07/07/2022

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25/06/2022

19/06/2022

MILAREPA'S CAVE AT SHYAKUNG '

Khandro La 2nd Time Visit to Milarepa Cave (Shyakung)

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Khandro La 2and Time Visit @ Milarepa Cave (Shyakung)🙏💐🌻Milarepa Cave SHYAKUNG According to Lama's Milarepa Cave's Holy water in this place is the bigge...

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22/04/2022

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09/04/2022

TĀRĀ DAY blessings!

Image: Tārā statue by 10th Karmapa, Choying Dorje, (Rubin Museum of Art): https://www.asianart.com/articles/10karmapa/35.html

THE KARMAPAS AND TĀRĀ
For more on the Karmapas and Tārā, with details of texts, art-works and images by the Karmapas, see here:

--LADY WITH THE FLOWER: NOBLE TĀRĀ AND THE GYALWANG KARMAPAS. First catalogue/overview of texts on Tārā by the Karmapas, histories, art-works and 'Supplication to Tārā' by 16th Karmapa. (https://dakinitranslations.com/2021/11/29/noble-tara-and-the-karmapas-overview-and-first-translation-of-tara-supplication-by-16th-karmapa/)

-- ‘White Tārā, Wish-Fulfilling Wheel’ Daily Practice by 8th Karmapa (https://dakinitranslations.com/2020/07/24/new-translation-white-tara-by-8th-karmapa/)

-- ‘Actually Realising White Tārā Daily Practice’ by 13th Karmapa (https://dakinitranslations.com/2020/11/23/new-translation-actually-realising-white-tara-daily-practice-by-13th-karmapa/)

--The Black Hat Eccentric: Tenth Karmapa, Choying Dorje, Supreme Artist and Visionary (https://dakinitranslations.com/2020/08/26/the-black-hat-eccentric-tenth-karmapa-choying-dorje-supreme-artist-and-visionary/)

GENERAL RESEARCH AND TRANSLATIONS ON TĀRĀ

Noble Tārā page (https://dakinitranslations.com/noble-tara-3/)

Music? Tara Prayer chanted by 17th Karmapa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2427-3KH0k) and 'By Your Side' by Sade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QJmI_V3j4: the lady with the flower in the video: ‘Oh when you’re cold, I’ll be there, hold you tight to me. Oh when you’re low, I’ll be there by your side.’

May this new research and translations on Tārā and the Karmapas be of benefit to the Karmapas and Kagyu lineages, the teachings and to all attaining the noble state of Arya Tārā!

Written and compiled by Adele Tomlin (Dakini Publications, 2022).

27/03/2022

Wishing all a Happy Dakini Day!

26/03/2022

"I am not saying that you should go home and clear out all your things - that is not the point. The point is this question of opening the heart, of really being able to rejoice in giving to others - not just material things. Material things are good things to start with but we can also give other things like our time, our sympathy, being there when others need us, giving fearlessness."
~Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Flashback Friday: Jetsunma is the most senior western nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, who also took full ordination as a bhikkhuni in Hong Kong.

Living in her vows since the age of 21, she embodies genuine altruistic loving kindness, compassion, wisdom and equanimity. Her smile is from the depths of her being. Her way shows us a clear image of the feminine divine. No one but oneself can walk the path, but we are all so very blessed to have such a genuine guide.

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