Ven. Pannavati at a jungle monastery in Thailand in 2009. Venerable Pannavati Karuna, MahaTheri, the abbot of the Heartwood Refuge Monastery has also founded the Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha Academy in...
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...