Exam Time for Tibetan Buddhist Nuns at Dolma Ling

Exam time! Here's a sweet video about winter exams made by the Tibetan Buddhist nuns at Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute. The Media Nuns are a special group of women managed by two trained nuns, Venerable Delek Yangdron and Venerable Delek Yangchen. The Media Nuns do a wonderful job documenting life at the nunneries supported by the Tibetan Nuns Project. They take pictures and make videos of all the events within the nunnery, as well as outside the nunnery, creating excellent documentary records.

Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute of Buddhist Dialectics is a non-sectarian nunnery located in the Kangra valley near Dharamsala, northern India. The large campus is home to about 250 nuns. The nunnery is fully funded by the Tibetan Nuns Project and was the first institute dedicated specifically to higher Buddhist education for Tibetan Buddhist nuns from all traditions.

Dolma Ling is unique because it offers a 17-year curriculum of traditional Buddhist philosophy and debate, as well as modern courses in Tibetan language, English, basic mathematics, and computer skills. The nuns also receive training in the ritual arts such as sand mandalas and butter sculpture.