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Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shift

  • Written by Darcie Price-Wallace, Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies, Northwestern University
Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shiftTibetan nuns study during the winter examination period at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamshala, India, in 2022.Rebecca Conway/Getty Images

In August 2025, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal – a record number – gathered at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in northern India to take various levels of the...

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