On October 29, the day we traditionally seek to release captive living beings from their capturers, the nuns at our temple held a release of fishing worms to live on in the ground around our Bodhi Tree. Fa Heng Shi...
Reuters carried a beautiful photo essay on an illegal female Buddhist novice monk ordination ceremony held at the Songdhammakalyani Monastery in Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand on December 5, 2018. Since 1928 it has...
It is illegal for women to take full ordination as a Bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun) in Thailand due to a 1928 law. Monks who have tried to ordain women have been ejected from the Thai sangha and even imprisoned. There does...
One does not need to become a monastic to follow the Buddha. Shakyamuni Buddha had disciples who were monastics, but also those who were not. Some were kings and in government and other professions. We often refer to...