The startling phenomenon of the Western Tibetan Buddhist nun: the challenges faced by Western nuns in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition living outside the traditional Tibetan Buddhist regions

This article investigates the recent manifestation of a number of Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns and the challenges they face living outside traditional Himalayan nunneries. The lives of these nuns have been researched mainly by insiders such as scholarly Western nuns and no reliable statistics are a...

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Main Author: Elizabeth Swanepoel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa
Series:Journal for the Study of Religion
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1011-76012016000100006&lng=en&tlng=en