Women in Buddhism

Begin with grounding breath and body awareness, trace lineage to the Buddha, and cultivate nature-based presence, learning about the five languages of love and food as a love expression.

Trace a personal journey from the 1970s women's liberation to buddhist practice, examining gender dynamics, sexuality, and leadership across cultures. Emphasize civil discourse and diverse perspectives within the buddhist path.

Explore historical beliefs about women's awakening in Asian Buddhism, and how cultural conditioning shapes practice across regions, while purifying karma to benefit ancestors and descendants.

A bicultural narrator reflects on Japan's traditional gender roles, cross-cultural dialogue, and evolving Buddhist perspectives, embracing diverse feminine qualities and striving to overcome hate through compassionate understanding.

Explores how gender and access to resources shape women's lives in the Brazilian Amazon, highlighting matriarchs, culture, and the shift from patriarchy to empowerment.

Join a western student as she commits to a buddhist practice with sensei Doug Duncan, serving as attendant, translating, and practicing karma yoga.

Explore how context and systems thinking reveal what is invisible, and how motherhood, energy, and bicultural perspectives shape women's paths in Buddhism.

Describe how karma yoga serves as a liberation-focused path of service, illustrated by a woman’s experience in Japan, supporting a sangha while balancing livelihood and gender roles.

Examine how money, sex, and power influence gender dynamics in spiritual communities. Learn how financial maturity, healthy relationships, and lower chakra work support sustainable Vajrayana practice.

Examine the dynamics of a romantic relationship with a teacher within a buddhist path, addressing jealousy as a poison and using Chenrezig sadhana and loving-kindness meditation to transform states.

Explore how yogic teaching intersects with women’s bodies within cultural contexts, resources, and frontiers for western sanghas and centers.

I discuss the start of a female spiritual teaching career, gender dynamics, and how pointing-out instructions and anima and animus shape women's awakening in Buddhism.

Explore the history of awakened women in Buddhism, examining translation and transcription challenges that obscured female practitioners like Yeshe Tsogyal, and how termas preserve their teachings.

Awakening in this lifetime is a fast, messy path that demands fearlessness and sustained practice. The course examines women's two-step awakening, nurturing roles, anger transformation, and merit through sangha.

This lecture highlights female Buddhist masters such as Yeshe Tsogyal and Mugai, explores female awakening beyond the Theravada arhat path, and discusses archiving and translating women's lineages in Buddhist history.

Explores non-binary gender and tantra through mahamaya and yab-yum, including female deities in sadhanas and the healing light emanating from the genitals as blessings.

Practice inclusion and forgiveness while exploring the fearless bodhisattva path, balancing female and male energies, and transforming arising challenges into wisdom and compassion.