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 ...

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (Reuters) - Boodsabann Chanthawong recently joined a growing number of women defying generations of Thai Buddhist tradition by becoming ordained as novice monks at an ...

A devotee has her hair cut by a female Buddhist monk during a mass female Buddhist novice monk ordination ceremony at the Songdhammakalyani monastery, Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand, December 5, ...

(The Conversation) — 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 ...

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Boodsabann Chanthawong recently joined a growing number of women defying generations of Thai Buddhist tradition by becoming ordained as novice monks at an ...

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (Reuters) - Boodsabann Chanthawong recently joined a growing number of women defying generations of Thai Buddhist tradition by becoming ordained as novice monks at an ...

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FREMONT — In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaved heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP -- Chatsumarn Kabilsingh gave up her husband, family life and a distinguished career to walk the path of the Lord Buddha. It has led her into a sharp conflict over the lowly and ...

A Buddhist nun has become the first female monk ordained in Thailand, presenting a serious challenge to the nation’s all-male clergy. Varanggana Vanavichayen, 55, was ordained Sunday by a female Sri ...