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In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist monastic traditions in the ...

Dharamshala: Himachal Pradesh governor Kavinder Gupta on Sunday welcomed the introduction of the National Institute of Open ...

Colombo, September 10: A PEW Research Centre global survey conducted in 2016 found that Buddhists were slightly above the global average in their levels of educational attainment. This is ...

Ulaanbaatar [Mongolia], June 15 (ANI): New Delhi-based International Buddhist Confederation and Mongolia's Ganden Tegchenling Monastery signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote national ...

Prince Edward Island is becoming home to a growing number of Buddhist nuns, who say the Island is a comfortable place for them to practise their spirituality. Four years ago, 13 Buddhist nuns moved to ...

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 ...

TRALEG Kyabgon Rinpoche drew thousands of Australians to the considered life of contemplation on the nature of mind. A pioneer of ''integrated Buddhism'', he exemplified the tradition that meditation ...

A new campus of Nalanda University was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, a little over 10 kilometres from where the eponymous Buddhist centre of learning stood. Considered ...

BEIJING (AP) — China is rebuilding a major center of Tibetan Buddhist learning in the country’s west to improve safety and public health, a local official and state media said Tuesday, refuting ...