Talk:Tenzin Palmo

message: Merge. This is a no-brainer. Sylvain1972 19:41, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, it's done. Sylvain1972 15:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge vote

message: In this german text  the author says that Tenzin Palmo vowed to become the first female buddha. I wonder whether she really did so. Anybody knows?
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.69.59 (talk) 11:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, she did. I have a quote for it in the Vicki Mackenzie book on her. I'll stick it up as soon as I get time to check the source. Hmm checked chat below... missed that first bit. No, she didn't say that because in Vajrayana Buddhism there are already plenty of other female Buddhas... she said that like Tara (who did vow to become the first Mahayana female Buddha) she'd become a Buddha in the female form. Dakinijones (talk) 21:07, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: True?

message: Here it is said, too Lady Buddha. I HAVE MADE a vow to attain enlightenment in the female form – no matter how many lifetimes it takes.” (she has not talked about "first female Buddha", though.)
*Abstract: A brief overview of the situation for nuns in the Tibetan Tradition by Bhiksuni Tenzin Palmo
*Women Buddhas: A Short List of Female Saints, Teachers and Practitioners in Tibetan Buddhism see section Tenzin Palmo, the great Yogini quotation from the text: "Before H.E. Khamtrul Rinpoche passed away in 1980, he had on several occasions requested Tenzin Palmo to start a convent for women yoginis. In 1993, the Lamas of the Khampagar monastery in Himachal Pradesh India again made this request.  Tenzin Palmo began slowly collecting funds for this formidable task. In 1999, she established Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in the Himalayas, where she continues to live and teach. For more information about Tenzin Palmo and the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery, please see tenzinpalmo.com."
Can nuns be yoginis, or they always are?
Tibetan Buddhist nuns can be yoginis if they practice tantric yogas. Tenzin Palmo does. Nuns who don't choose to practice aren't yoginis. Not all yoginis are nuns. Not all nuns are yoginisDakinijones (talk) 21:14, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.85.222 (talk) 08:54, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.85.222 (talk) 09:03, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.85.222 (talk) 09:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.85.222 (talk) 20:24, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Austerlitz -- 88.72.22.61 (talk) 23:12, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Yes

message: * "There has been another significant line within the Mindrolling tradition apart from the Trichen line of throne holders and the Khenchen line of vinaya holders. This is the Jetsünma line, one of the most remarkable features of Mindrolling. It is a line of many great female masters known as the Jetsünmas, daughters of various Mindrolling Trichens over the years."
Maybe the female teachers belonging to a line are generally called Jetsünmas? for example that's the title of Sakya Trinzin's sister Sakya Trizin -Jetsun Kushok Chimey Luding-, too.
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.88.86 (talk) 08:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Jetsünma Lineage

message: In the article it is said: "The ordination was as a shramanerika, or novice nun, the highest level of ordination currently available for women in the Tibetan tradition where the bhikshuni sangha has died out. However, with the support of her teacher, in 1973 Tenzin Palmo received the full bhikshuni ordination in Hong Kong, one of the first Western women to do so."
What IS a full bhikshuni ordination what does it mean?
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.197.75 (talk) 15:15, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ordination

message: *International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha, should be mentioned within the article, I think.
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.200.77 (talk) 21:33, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Congress

message: *eBook
:Austerlitz -- 88.72.5.124 (talk) 10:34, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.213.192 (talk) 11:23, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.83.94 (talk) 21:52, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

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text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.83.94 (talk) 22:17, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Austerlitz -- 88.75.95.181 (talk) 12:47, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ebook

message: *, see section "The Changing Status of Women (and also, the Plight of Western Monastics)"
quotation from her text:
"When I first came to India I lived in a monastery with 100 monks. I was the only nun,' she said, and paused for several seconds for her words to sink in. 'I think that is why I
eventually went to live by myself in a cave.' Everyone got the point. 'The monks were kind, and I had no problems of sexual harassment or troubles of that sort, but of course I was unfortunately within a female form. They actually told me they prayed that in my next life I would have the good fortune to be reborn as a male so that I could join in all the monastery's activities. In the meantime, they said, they didn't hold it too much against me that I had this inferior rebirth in the female form. It wasn't too much my fault.'"
What to do with it?
:Austerlitz -- 83.236.19.10 (talk) 10:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
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text: Austerlitz -- 83.236.19.7 (talk) 10:01, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tenzin Palmo