Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, born in England, has devoted her life to attaining enlightenment in a female form — at one stage spending years isolated in a cave in the Himalayas to follow the rigorous path ...

For about a year after Ruth Ozeki’s father died in 1998, she would hear him clearly calling her name while she washed the dishes or folded laundry. The award-winning author, filmmaker and Soto Zen ...

As levels of religious affiliation continue to drop in Western society, can stories about the faith lives of women past and present lead people back to churches, to temples, to monasteries—to God?

(AP) — As Buddhism has grown in the West and Asian Buddhist societies have been influenced by feminism, there’s more awareness of the importance of women’s leadership. This story is part of a series ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, born in England, has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, born in England, has ...