The first women ordained as nuns were Buddha’s maternal aunt and 500 female followers. They were given additional vows to those given to the monks in order to avoid suspicion of this mixed-gender celibate order from society at that time.

Everyday practice of praise and prostration, sutra recitation, and dedication.

The traditional presentations list three points concerning our behavior toward a spiritual teacher. Making offerings, helping them and practicing in accordance with their advice.

Tantra practice transforms Buddha-nature factors by employing Buddha-figures as infographics to integrate complex realizations along the path.

Tantra, as a practice structured across the three continuums of basis, path, and result, relies on sutra principles such as refuge, bodhichitta, renunciation and understanding voidness, while emphasizing proper empowerment and adherence to vows.

In the Kalachakra teachings, time, karma and subtle energies are explained as factors to be transformed through practice in order to overcome samsaric cycles and reach enlightenment.