(The Conversation) — The Therigatha, a collection of poems written in Pāli by Buddhist nuns, reveals that women’s enlightenment may not necessarily require renunciation of domestic life.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science. During the eighteenth century the opportunities for women to gain a knowledge of science were minimal.

A good example of this might be their entrance into freemasonry: the first women’s masonic lodges were established precisely during the Enlightenment. Women’s entry into other spheres of male activity ...

I’m a scholar of women and gender in Buddhism, and one of the key questions driving my research is the unique ways in which enlightenment is experienced in a female body. This led me to the ...

Yet while the names most remembered from the Enlightenment era – Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Paine – belong to men, there were many women who participated in and influenced the intellectual ...

What is missing, however, from these images are Buddhist women. What does enlightenment look like for them? I’m a scholar of women and gender in Buddhism, and one of the key questions driving my ...