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From Illiteracy to PhD: How Exiled Tibetan Buddhist Nuns Are Ensuring Gender Parity

September 26, 2018;

The Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute hosted 46 nuns taking their ‘Geshema’ exams from August 15-26. The four-year ‘geshe’ degree is considered the highest academic degree in Tibetan Buddhism, the equivalent of a PhD. “Some feminists from the West could … Continued

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