Tibetan nuns study during the winter examination period at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamshala, India, in 2022. Rebecca Conway/Getty Images In August 2025, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious ...
DHARAMSHALA, India (RNS) — When Geshema Delek Wangmo was 12 years old and starting her Tibetan Buddhist journey, she joined her teacher on a pilgrimage. The journey, which involved traveling on foot ...
Chinese authorities have intensified restrictions on Tibetan religious practices by enforcing a ban on minors entering monasteries. The crackdown, coinciding with winter vacations, aims to curtail the ...
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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 ...
(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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