Buddhism
For more details on this topic, see Women in Buddhism.- Khema and Uppalavanna, the two chief female disciples of the Buddha
- Kisa Gotami
- Machig Labdrön—founder of the Tibetan practice of Chöd
- Maha Pajapati Gotami
- Pema Chodron—fully ordained Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Shambhala lineage.
- Ani Tenzin Palmo—a nun in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage and founder of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India
- Yeshe Tsogyal—Tibetan consort and disciple of the Padmasambhava
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“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
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