Recently added articles from Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities:

Editorial.

Oct 01, 2006 ... Dear Readers, Kathina (Robe Offering Ceremony) is always the biggest festival for our monastery, so in this issue we report about our recent Kathina ceremony. We are moving in the right direction, the strength of the supporters increase, and our practice is strengthened. ...

Congratulation Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! Ordination of Sayalay Sucinti as samaneri rev. Daw Sucinti.(Brief article)

Oct 01, 2006 ... Ven. Vijita, Abbess of Sri Gotami Temple, Horana in Sri Lanka, conducted the ordination ceremony of Sayalay Sucinti (Sayalay Thuseinti of Myanmar) as Samaneri in Theravada tradition on June 19, 2006. Sayalay Sucinti took her first step in her spiritual development as Samaneri and will look ...

What is a position of a bhikkhuni being raped?

Oct 01, 2006 ... When the bhikkhuni sangha joined the Order, the bhikkhu sangha was already in existence. The major four parajikas for the bhikkhus were already in practice and the bhikkhuni sangha have taken over the first four parajika rules from the bhikkhu sangha. The first one being: Ya ...

One step beyond.(The Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, Thailand's first female monk in the Theravada Buddhist tradition)(Biography)

Oct 01, 2006; Good, Cynthia ... The Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, among those recommended by the Association 1,000 women for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, serves as Thailand's first female monk in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Dhammananda Bhikkhuni remembers the moment she decided to become a monk and ...

News from Oldham England.(Buddhist Vihara)(Brief article)

Oct 01, 2006 ... Wesak Celebrations were held at the Sri Lankan Ketumati Buddhist Vihara, Oldham England on 14th May 2006. Venerable Pidiville Piyatissa Head of the Vihara made presentations to senior members of The Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) where he teaches once a month. Cream sashes were ...

Slow dance.

Oct 01, 2006; Shields, Dennis ... This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer. She wants to see how many people get her poem. It is quite the poem. This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. It! was sent by a medical doctor--Make sure to ...

Robe offering ceremony: at Songdhammakalyani monastery.

Oct 01, 2006 ... Annually Kathina or Robe Offering ceremony draws largest crowd of Buddhists to our monastery. This year more than any other year, there were indeed the largest crowd since the beginning of the monastery. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The past year had been a year of hard ...

From our reader.(Letter to the editor)

Oct 01, 2006 ... I wish to commend you on your education in the Dhamma, your efforts to spread the Dhamma, and your determination to re-establish the Bhikkhuni sangha. I am an American Samanera studying at a Buddhist Temple with two very erudite, long-standing Bhikkhus that are quite conservative. I am 21 ...

Keeping track of the revival of bhikkhuni ordination in Sri Lanka.

Oct 01, 2006; Bhikkhuni, Dhammananda ... My ordination lineage received since 2001 is from Sri Lanka, so it is utter importance for my academic interest and my personal commitment that the history of this significant event of turning the new page in the History of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Theravada be kept to its proper details ....

News on Bhikshuni Lineage in Tibetan tradition.(Department of Religion and Culture's conference)

Oct 01, 2006 ... The 3rd Seminar of Vinaya Scholars about the Bhikshuni Lineage, organized by the Department of Religion and Culture (DRC), was held in Dharamsala, India, May 22-24, 2006. H. H. the Dalai Lama gave the opening talk, and many high Tibetan officials were present: the Kalon Tripa (Prime ...

Donchees in Cambodia.(religious activities of Buddhist monks)

Oct 01, 2006; Bhikkhuni, Dhammananda ... During Polpot regime Cambodia went through a great social, political and religious crisis. Religious activities of Buddhist monks was equal to naught. Many of them were killed, many died in hardship and many were forced to disrobe. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The existing ...

Mirth mends.(humor therapy for work-related tension)

Oct 01, 2006 ... A pair of Bangkok-based psychotherapists re focusing on the glee factor by orgaising weekly, laughter-therapy sessions to counter some of the ill effects of contemporary urban life. Chuckling, giggling, guffawing, chortling, sniggerling, tittering. All therapeutic sounds that ...