For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes has been running a 240-acre abbey tucked in the woods just outside of Newport. But it was never ...

NEWPORT, Wash. (RNS) — Thubten Damcho stood before a half-dozen garden beds bursting with leafy vegetables and thought back to her life before becoming a Buddhist nun, when she was so busy as a ...

NEWPORT, Wash. (FāVS News) — By some they’ve been fondly called the “nuns from Newport.” For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes have been ...

NEWPORT, Wash. — At a conference for Western Buddhist teachers some years ago, the Venerable Thubten Chodron and other monastics complained to the Dalai Lama about the difficulties they faced: lack of ...

In the third volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, the Dalai Lama and American Buddhist nun Chodron analyze three key Buddhist concepts: samsara, nirvana, and buddha nature. Whereas ...

NEWPORT, Wash. (RNS) A Tibetan Buddhist nun has quietly founded one of the only U.S. monasteries where women -- and soon men -- can become fully ordained. Since its founding in 2003, 10 nuns have been ...