![]() ![]() ![]() The first Westerner to ordain as a Tibetan Buddhist nun and the founder of the first Tibetan Buddhist nunnery outside Tibet, she paved the way for a generation of influential Western teachers, including Tenzin Palmo, Pema Chödrön, and Tsultrim Allione. She played a key role in resettling the Tibetan Buddhists streaming into India after the 1959 Chinese takeover, determined to help them preserve their culture and religion. From the time Bedi arrived in India in 1934 as the wife of a Sikh radical, she was a force to be reckoned with. Though she’s a heroine of sorts in India-known to generations of Tibetans as “Mummy-la,” to others as the tall, blue-eyed Englishwoman who fought for Indian independence and was jailed as a Gandhi satyagrahi-she is virtually unknown in the West. Never heard of Freda Bedi? You’re not alone. ![]()
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