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The
Feminist Face of Tibetan Buddhism
Recorded March 11, 2001
| Ven.
Robina Courtin has been a Tibetan Buddhist nun for twenty-three.
years. Through her prison ministry to men with life sentences
or on death row, she has helped to transform the inner lives
of those society has given up on. Hear the remarkable story
of this powerful woman's journey from her Catholic upbringing
in Australia, to her years as a radical feminist and activist
in London, and to ordination as a Buddhist Nun in Kathmandu |
MODERATED
BY:
The Very Reverend Alan Jones
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Interview.Ven. Robina Courtin has been a Tibetan Buddhist nun
for twenty-three. years. Through her prison ministry to men with
life sentences or on death row, she has helped to transform the
inner lives of those society has given up on. Hear the remarkable
story of this powerful woman's journey from her Catholic upbringing
in Australia, to her years as a radical feminist and activist
in London, and to ordination as a Buddhist Nun in Kathmandu.
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