life in our community
For a sense of the rhythm of our daily life, you can view our daily schedule here.
As four women sharing a single way of life and a single monastic home,
we are very much committed in developing healthy communication
practices. We have found that on occasion we are reaching beyond the
models that monks' communities offer in this regard, and we invite you
to read and respond to a workshop
we are proposing to consider how we might the male models of monastic communities that
have dominated Buddhism to date might be adapted to draw on the
particular strengths and needs of women.
We are
organizing a workshop that addresses this question, during the 12th
Sakyadhita Conference in Singapore, in June 2011. This workshop
will focus discussion on the following possibliity: If it is true that women tend to communicate with each other differently than men do, if women tend to respond differently to hierarchical authority, and if women
tend to form different sorts of friendships than men do, then in order
for communities comprised entirely of women to flourish, they may need
different organizational structures and different communication
practices than have historically been found productive for Buddhist
male communities. Continue to read more about this workshop.