[Buddha-l] Enthronment of Jetsunbma Tenzin Palmo; Womankind in Spirituality

[jkirk]

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Never heard of this nun--sounds like some kind of progress.
But 12 years in a....... tub??  
Joanna
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H-ASIA
March 6, 2008

A small step for Tenzin Palmo, a Greap Leap for Womankind in Spirituality:
Jetsunbma Tenzin Palmo enthronement announcement
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From: joan stanley-baker <gaeapanda at gmail.com>

This Tibetan Buddhist tradition used to have women priestesses up till the
fourteenth century, I believe when their authority was slowly removed shred
by shred till they are not even given literacy in the recent centuries but
used only to serve tea

I am happy to bring this triumph to the list.  It has been a very long
struggle, for this English Buddhist nun who sat for 12 years in a tub high
up in the Himalayas... to arrive at the honoured place given her here...

What she seeks is women's rights in spiritual practice and attainment, and
slowly, step by tiny step she is getting there.

Check her website http://www.gatsal.org/

Here just to share a soft hurrahhh...

An email contact is dongyu gatsal <dgl.nunnery at yahoo.com>


Joan

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