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Interview · Sravasti Abbey · 2009Interviewed by Buddhist Television Network
59 min
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Thubten Chodron is interviewed about her life as a Buddhist nun and her teaching work, in an interview filmed for Korean television.

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American Buddhist nun who founded and leads Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western monastics in the United States, and a central figure in restoring full ordination for women.

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