Rabbi Noa Kushner discusses the difficulty of being a young woman rabbi in a male-dominated environment.
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The role and status of women in religion is often a controversial subject. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo looks at the position of women in Buddhism, both from an historical and a current perspective.
Sylvia Wetzel introduces the subject of “Striving for Equality Between Women & Men in Buddhism” for a response from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lama Renaissance Film Director Khashyar Darvich interviews Tibetan Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo about the release of her new book, "Into the Heart of Life." The interview was filmed in the Himalayan Mountains of India.
Talk of Ven. Ani Tenzin Palmo in Tashi Jong, North India, on November 14,2000
The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment.