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There Are No Mahayana Monasteries

When we look closely at what we call "Mahāyāna" monasteries, we find something that surprises many people: institutionally speaking, they are Śrāvaka communities that happen to study and practise according to Mahāyāna literature...

At least, not in the way we think

There Are No Mahayana Monasteries

What Theravada Can Teach Us

Western Tibetan monastics are struggling. Our tradition offers the university education, but we've forgotten to build the primary school. And without that foundation, fewer and fewer people will make it to graduation...

How to Keep Tibetan Monasticism Alive

What Theravada Can Teach Us
All compounded things are subject to falling apart, apparently.