Tag: Feminism

• Tenzin Palkyi on Gender, Feminism and Women’s Empowerment

  

  Palkyi’s ground-breaking talk on Gender, Feminism and Women’s Empowerment   The talk was delivered at the first ever Tibetan Women’s Empowerment Conference- October 2016 organized by RTWA NYNJ Good Afternoon everyone. First of all, I want to start by thanking the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association of New York and New Jersey for organizing this very…

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  October 23, 2016

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  Buddhist nuns, Feminism, Gender, Geshema, Tenzin Palkyi, Tibet, Tibetan, Tibetan Women

• Vital Underpinnings of Tibetan Feminism

  

    Decoding Feminism: The general notion of feminism in the Tibetan community is that it is a western import.   It is therefore scoffed at as “white feminism” – one that is unwelcome and struggling to find its footing on the Asian turf. In the general Tibetan discourse, feminism is seen as women coming together to…

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  August 1, 2015

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  Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Dhardon Sharling, exile Tibetans, Feminism, Gender, Gender equality, Karmapa Rinpoche, Tibet, Tibetan, Tibetan Feminism, Tibetan Women, Women Empowerment