Online Dharma by Women

• Selections from the Therigata (Verses of the Female Elders) by the first nuns of the Buddhist tradition.   (The same selections are also available on the Access to Insight site as Therigata - Verses of the Elder Nuns.)
• Culavedalla Sutta (MN 44), in which Bhikkhuni Dhammadinna instructs her former husband in the Dhamma
• The Bhikkhuni-Samyutta Suttas.  In these suttas Mara, the personification of doubt and evil, tries in vain to lure the bhikkhunis (nuns) away from their meditation spots in the forest by asking them provocative questions. Without exception, these wise women conquer Mara decisively.

• NEW Practice and Everyday Life

• Women in Theravada Buddhism (from Steve's Vipassana Page)

• Buddhist Message on Organ Donation
• Letting Go
• Living Life, Facing Death
• Loving-Kindness in the Psych Ward
• On the Death of a Pet
• Retreat for Women who are HIV-Positive - an appeal
• Thom's Garden
• UPAYA (Skilful Means)
• Meditation with Small Children
• Working with Anger, Frustration and Stress - Meditating in Jail
• Taking Care of Ourselves
• What is Spirit?
• Spiritual Practice is Healing, Empowering and Transforming
  (a talk at the Women of Faith Forum at Hofstra University)

• Some suggestions on practice
• Images
• The Pools
• The Glass of Water
• Nuggets of Wisdom - quotes from Endless Zen, in Cyberkaya

• NEW Choosing a Warrior Heart Path
• NEW May All Children Live As Children

• NEW The Feminine Spirit in Buddhism

• Paramis: The Heart of Buddha's Teaching and Our Own Practice
• See also Interviews

• NEW Woman to Woman (Boucher's tribute to her teacher Ruth Denison)

• The Path of Creativity

• NEW A Line of Women (on why she now recites a lineage of women in place of the traditional ancestral line)
• Without a Manual
• What is Your Purpose?
• Review of Dharma Moon, a children's Dharma music recording

• Foreword to Finding Freedom: Writing From Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters.  Incarcerated in San Quentin at the age of 19 for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was accused four years later of participating in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of a prison guard. Masters' commitment to nonviolence leads him more and more into the role of peacemaker as he tries to put compassion into action.  This is Chavis's foreword to his extraordinary story.

• NEW Six Kinds of Loneliness
• NEW Looking into Laziness
• NEW Signs of Spiritual Progress
• Everybody Loves Something
• The Threefold Purity
• When The Going Gets Rough
• To Know Yourself is to Forget Yourself
• See also Interviews

• Colors of the Dharma: A report on the Fourth Annual Conference of Western Buddhist Monastics
• The following articles are from Questions on Buddhism, at the Amitabha Buddhist Centre website in Singapore:

• Who is the Buddha?
• What are the Three Jewels?
• What is the essence of Buddha's teaching?
• Why are there many Buddhist traditions?
• What are the various Buddhist traditions?
• What is Vajrayana?
• What does the imagery in tantric art mean?
• What is the purpose of reciting mantra?

• NEW Finding Joy Amid The Pain

• NEW Practice and Nonviolence

• Face to Face: the Meaning Comes Alive

• NEW Greetings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Buddhist Women.  From a message sent by His Holiness to the fourth International Conference of Buddhist Women, held in Ladakh, August 1995.

• Giving in the Pali Canon - an essay on dana (from Steve's Vipassana Page)
• One Foot in the World: Buddhist Approaches to Present-Day Problems (from Steve's Vipassana Page)
• Ministering to the Sick and Terminally Ill (from Steve's Vipassana Page)

• The Place of Women in Buddhism

• Honey on the Razor's Edge: The Tantric Psychology of Gender and Romance. Tantra proposes relating with a gender-specific experience of reality...

• Coming Out of the Spiritual Closet: on being Buddhist, being gay/lesbian
• Embracing Our Demons
• Expectations
• Hands Full of Love
• Living With Our Ordinary Selves
• Muddy Waters and Howling Wolves
• The First Buddhist Nun
• What is Enlightenment?
• Taking Refuge
• The Noble Eight-Fold Path - Part I and Part II
• Kwan Yin Vows
• No Guilt, No Shame

• Beginning Insight Meditation (from Steve's Vipassana Page)

• NEW The Midwest Zen Summer of 1983

• Investigation:   Listening as Deeply as We Possibly Can (with Michael Liebenson Grady) in Insight Meditation Online

• Dharma on the Front Lines (an article on engaged Buddhism by the founder of the Karuna Center for Peacekeeping)

• NEW Radical Optimism
• NEW The Practice of Giving and Receiving: A Practice of Compassionate Care for the Dying
• A Buddhist Life in America: Simplicity in the Complex
• Joan Halifax and Her Robe of Many Tears (an interview with Halifax by Stephen Foehr)
• Being With Dying. Contemplative approaches to working with dying people.

• Detachment and Compassion in Early Buddhism
• A Journey Into Buddhism
• Violence and Disruption in Society: A Study of the Early Buddhist Texts

• NEW A Natural Teacher
• Right There Where You're Standing
• Pain as a Teacher

• NEW First Kyol Che
• NEW Inka Speech
• NEW Sangha as direction, Sangha as path
• NEW This Trivial Tail

• NEW Nine Dharma talks from the Peacemaker archive

• How Mucking About in Boats is Like Going on Retreat

• A Taste of the Holy Life: An Account of an International Ordination in Myanmar)
• Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns
• Investigation for Insight

• NEW Compassion and Wisdom (the Four Thoughts that turn the mind to practice)
• NEW New York Public Talk (1998)
• NEW Venerable Khandro Rinpoche on Homosexual Behavior and Buddhist Practice (scroll a few times down - this is the second article on this webpage)
• NEW Forandringer kommer over tid (in Norwegian)
• Hva skjer når man dør – De 6 bardoer (in Norwegian)

• Preparing for Death and Helping the Dying
• The Practice of Tara

• Nothing Special
• All of Us (Beset by Birth, Decay and Death): Twelve Dhamma talks on practice, given on Parappuduwa Nun's Island, Sri Lanka)
• Meditating on No-Self
• Path and Fruit
• To Be Seen Here and Now: Ten Dhamma talks from a meditation retreat at Pelmadulla Bhikkhu Training Centre, Sri Lanka

• Practical Guidelines for Vipassana (from Steve's Vipassana Page)

• NEW Master Ma Was Not Well

• The Ten Marks of Sila (from Cyberkaya)
• The Four Thoughts which Turn the Mind to Contemplation of Religion (from Cyberkaya)
• Women in Western Buddhism
• See also Poetry

• The Benefits of Meditation and Sacrifice (from Steve's Vipassana Page)
• See also Interviews

• NEW Spiritual Thanksgiving (an audio recording)
• NEW Religious Women's Commitment to Healing
• NEW Dialogue between Feminism and Won Buddhism
• NEW Development of Gender Equality in Won Buddhism

• Finding Joy in the Midst of Suffering

• Buddha Activity and Buddha Nature
• Cosmology as Taught by the Buddha
• She Che [Zhije], Chöd and Advice from Padampa Sangye
• The Dakini Principle

• True Motivation for Kindness
• Many are More Precious Than One
• Compassion is the Only Lasting Antidote to Suffering
• Why I Chose Buddhism
• Motivation: Those Who Have Hopes of Us
• When the Teacher Calls from Afar
• Accomplishing Relative and Supreme View
• Cause and Effect Reality
• Spiritual Fidelity
• Turning Adversity into Felicity
• Vajrayana's Final Hour
• The Four Immeasurables
• Life in the Six Realms

• NEW Kuan Yin - Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva

• Buddhist Nuns in Burma (from Steve's Vipassana Page)

• NEW Judy's Boat, the story of a friend's dying, death and burial within the context of a loving Buddhist community

• Emotions
• Emotions – Working with Anger (from Steve's Vipassana Page)

• NEW Inka Speech
• NEW Kong-An Workshop
• NEW The rimpoche's toenails

• NEW An extract from Cave In The Snow, Mackenzie's biography of Ven. Tenzin Palmo
• NEW A Visit to Tashi Jong - a recent article on Ven. Tenzin Palmo's new nunnery from the author of Cave In The Snow

• World as Lover, World as Self
• The Vegan Vision

• Sympathy for the Devil -- an article on the power of forgiveness and and a redemption on death row

• Women in Buddhism -- an in-depth article from a sensei (teacher) of the Jodo Shinshu tradition
• Faces Brightly Shining: Rev. Akegarasu and the Eternal Life Sutra

• NEW I Call to You ... A Blessing for the Journey
• NEW A Journey to the Earth's Womb (1) and (2)
• NEW The Practice of Not Blinking
• NEW The Meaning of Spiritual Friendship
• NEW Practice Circles
• NEW The Practice of Unsurpassable Giving
• NEW Saying Goodbye to a Dharma Sister
• NEW Settling Into the Heart of Buddha: Working With the Precepts
• NEW Skid-Row Los Angeles Street Retreat
• NEW Turning the Water Wheel of Compassion, Introduction to the Peacemaker Order
• NEW Women Acquiring The Essence
• NEW A Year to Live - A Course in Conscious Living
• NEW You, Too Will Become Buddha
• NEW Eight Dharma talks from the Peacemaker archive

• Many of her Dhamma discourses and short talks are available free (in downloadable zipped format) on the Thai forest tradition page of the ATI Theravada text archive.  The site also includes an essay by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on her life and teachings.  Several of these are also found individually on Steve's Vipassana Page, namely:
• Looking Inward: Observations on the Art of Meditation
• A Good Dose of Dhamma: Advice to Meditators When They Are Ill
• Breath Meditation Condensed
• Going Against the Flow: Four talks by Upasika Kee Nanayon
• Reading the Mind: Advice for Meditators From the Talks of K. Khao-suan-luang
• Upasika Kee Nanayon and the Social Dynamic of Theravadin Buddhist Practice by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

• Buddhist Meditation in Burma (from Steve's Vipassana Page)

• NEW Mindfulness

• NEW Visionary Goddesses

• Anger
• The Buddhist Tradition of Compassion and our Response to AIDS
• Faith Mind

• Keizan's Other Disciples:  a short article on the unknown female disciples of the great Soto Zen teacher

• Being Aware (a retreat talk)
• On Transmission and Teaching

• NEW Discovering our Buddha Nature (Part 1)
• NEW Discovering our Buddha Nature (Part 2)
• NEW Patience and Effort (from Gatsal)
• Tenzin Palmo is watering the nuns: an interview with the venerable Tenzin Palmo

• The emptiness & form of The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path

• A personal look at nuns -- includes interviews with Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) and Ven. Tenzin Konchog (Lena New) of the Amitabha Buddist Centre in Singapore, as well as Sister Josephine Sim of the Canossian Sisters Order in Singapore.

• NEW Inka Speech
• NEW Traveling Zen

• The Buddha We Are
• One Bright Pearl
• Zazen Posture
• Practicing with the Breath
• Bodhisattva Vows
• The Enlightened Body
• Taking the Precepts, Sewing Buddha's Robe
• Receiving the Precepts, part 2 ... part 3 ... part 4 ... part 5

• NEW An Incantation
• NEW Perfection
• The American Buddha
• Retreats at Manzanita Village
• Beginning Meditation
• Why we don't keep 100% silence on (some of) our retreats
• Community as Practice
• Storms roll over the mountains
• Deepening Practice
• Coming Out Whole: On Gender, Transsexuality, Buddhism, and my Everyday Life
• Towards a Recognition of Place
• Being Peace
• Mindfulness Trainings/Precepts

• NEW The Bodhisattva Ideal
• NEW Clowns and Dharma Teachers
• NEW Commentary on Hyang Eom's Up a Tree
• NEW Death, Dying and Kong-Ans
• NEW Doubt
• NEW Everything Is That Simple
• NEW Gilding the Lily
• NEW Inka Speech
• NEW Kill or Not Kill -- That's a Big Question
• NEW Kill Your Eyes
• NEW Kong-An Workshop 
• NEW Making a Complete Effort
• NEW The Mustard Seed
• NEW The One Necessary Ingredient
• NEW The Samadhi of Coolness
• NEW Sincere & Consistent Effort
• NEW A Thousand Eyes, a Thousand Hands
• NEW Unfolding Seasons
• NEW What is Checking?  
• NEW 'What is this Seed?
• NEW Why Can't I?  How Can I?  
• NEW Work With Your Situation
• NEW Zen at the Bank
• Believing in Yourself.  A talk from the Women and American Buddhism conference held at Providence Zen Center in September 1984.
• It's OK to let go: a hospice experience.
• A kong-an is nothing other than the present moment. A talk on kong-an (koan) practice.
• Leaving Your Religion at Home. Seong Hyang's transmission dharma talk.

• WomanMind:  A-Yu Khandro - The Story of a Saint, from Yeshe Melong (scroll to bottom half of page)

• Dharma of Meditation
• Dharma of Unfoldment
• Refuge

• NEW A Day of Practice and Discussion with Sharon Salzberg
• Facets of Metta (from Steve's Vipassana Page)
• Faith
• Interviews

• Using Time: The Prison Program of Padma Ling

• NEW Not Knowing is Most Intimate
• NEW The Path is Through Your Self
• NEW If You Practice You Will See It
• NEW The Flower of No Separation

• An American Zen Pilgrimage

• Forgiveness Practice
• To Judge or Not To Judge

• Healing: Some Psychological and Spiritual Dimensions

• Empty Hands - Entering the Path of Inquiry

• Renunciation: The Ultimate Happiness
• Renunciation: The Highest Happiness (same article, I believe, but different site -- Steve's Vipassana Page)

• The Heart Awakened: Three Essays (from Steve's Vipassana Page)

• Reflections on a Few Temples in Japan

• NEW Death, Dying and Kong-Ans
• NEW Inka Speech
• NEW The Woman Who Marries a Bear

• Letter from Donna-Marie

• The Bodhisattva's Life

• Living Meditation, Living Insight: The Path of Mindfulness in Daily Life
• Children’s Direct Seeing

• NEW Women's Lineage: Discovering our Female Ancestors
• NEW Teacher and Student
• Nothing Special: The Buddhist Sex Quandary, Part One and Part Two
• Forum on Abortion: Part One and Part Two

• NEW After a Millennium, World Buddhists Affirm Equality for Women.  February 15, 1998 marked the first time ever in Buddhism’s history that Buddhists representing diverse traditions and schools from around the world joined together for a truly international and ecumenical ordination. It was especially significant because it was a joint effort by Buddhist leaders to re-establish the order of nuns in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, and India, where no women had been ordained as a nun for over eight centuries....

• Revival of the Bhikkhuni Order in Sri Lanka.  The story of how the nuns' order was reintroduced to Sri Lanka in 1986 -- nine centuries after it disappeared.  From The Island (Colombo).

• NEW Visit psychologist Karen Kissel Wegela's webpage in the Shambhala Sun online archive to read all her dharma advice columns (there are currently 13).

• Ending Personal Pain (excerpt)

• NEW Seven Factors of Enlightenment

• NEW Do We Really Believe in Impermanence?

• NEW A letter to the nuns at the Life as a Western Buddhist Nun conference
• NEW The Benefits of Being Monks and Nuns
• NEW Advice for Monks and Nuns (with Lama Yeshe)