{"id":536,"date":"2016-07-31T14:11:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/?p=536"},"modified":"2016-08-12T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T19:25:10","slug":"ayya-yeshe-on-gender-equality-social-engagement-finding-peace-in-a-materialistic-world-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2016\/07\/31\/ayya-yeshe-on-gender-equality-social-engagement-finding-peace-in-a-materialistic-world-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayya Yeshe on Gender Equality, Social Engagement, Finding Peace in a materialistic world and more."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>We would like to share our short documentary about the hot topics of Buddhism \u2013 Gender Equality, Social Engagement, Finding Peace in a materialistic world and more. All these topics are mentioned through the inspiring story of Ayya Yeshe (An Australian Buddhist nun), her experience as a Western Buddhist monastic, struggle to find support gender equality and then the wonderful socially engaged work with ex \u2018untouchable\u2019 Indian Buddhists in the slums of Central India.<\/p>\n<p>We would be very grateful if you would watch and share our documentary in your FB feed and social forums. The documentary is only 12 minutes, but it opens up discussion for so many important issues \u2013 like gender inequality, social engagement in Buddhism, the future of Buddhism in the West etc.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary is free on youtube. We hope to make a more in depth and better quality doco in future. Thank you for helping us get the word out there about these important issues!<\/p>\n<p>Warm Regards,<\/p>\n<p>The Bodhicitta Foundation Team<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodhicitta-vihara.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.bodhicitta-vihara.com<\/a><br \/>\nSocially Engaged Buddhism for a better world<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Life in Red - A Journey from Sydney Suburbs to Nagpur Slums\" style=\"width:560px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_GvzKfwF5vDk\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/GvzKfwF5vDk\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GvzKfwF5vDk\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT11M34S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2016-07-09T11:04:25Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_GvzKfwF5vDk\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/GvzKfwF5vDk\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Life in Red - A Journey from Sydney Suburbs to Nagpur Slums<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GvzKfwF5vDk\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/GvzKfwF5vDk\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Life in Red - A Journey from Sydney Suburbs to Nagpur Slums\" width=\"560\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Ayya Yeshe, an Australian Buddhist nun, working in slums of Nagpur, India, with Dalits (ex untouchables), speaks about her work and life. In this process, she also unveils many unspoken issues within Tibetan Buddhist structure. For more details about Ayya Yeshe and her work, please visit http:\/\/bodhicitta-vihara.com Australian monastery: www.bodhicitta-monastery.com\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:560px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, We would like to share our short documentary about the hot topics of Buddhism \u2013 Gender Equality, Social Engagement, Finding Peace in a materialistic world and more. All these topics are mentioned through the inspiring story of Ayya&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2016\/07\/31\/ayya-yeshe-on-gender-equality-social-engagement-finding-peace-in-a-materialistic-world-and-more\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}