For Women Who Desire To Study

Nun Ayya Khema (1923-1997) died of cancer on November 2, 1997, at the age of 74. 'Peace and Peace' is her legal name. About 25 volumes on Zen and Buddhist teachings have been written by the nun. Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path is her best-selling book in the United States. She was ordained in Sri Lanka in 1979 and is a pioneer in the Sangha's campaign for nuns. Ayya Khema was born to Jewish parents in 1923. She spent her youth in Berlin before fleeing to Scotland when the war broke out. She then resided in Shanghai, where she and her family were imprisoned in POW camps by the Japanese forces. Her father was kidnapped and killed in captivity. She toured all around Asia after the war, focusing on the Himalayan regions, and practiced Zen. She moved to the United States with her husband and two children in 1964. The nun started teaching Zen across the globe after learning and practicing Buddhist meditation for a length of time. She established the Theravada Wat Buddha Dhamma monastery in a woodland outside Sydney, Australia, in 1978. For women who desire to study in detail, the nun established the International Buddhist Women's Center and Parappuduwa Nun's Island. Buddhism often want to be ordained.

She helped organize the first worldwide conference for nuns in 1987, at which the Dalai Lama gave the keynote talk. In the same year, the nun became the first person to speak before the United Nations regarding Buddhism.

Nun Ayya Khema is also the patron director of the Buddha-Haus foundation in Germany, which was founded in 1989, and in 1996 testified to the foundation of the Sangha of the Western Forest Monastery Tradition, which is the monastic monastic order in the Western Forest Monastery Tradition. Germany's first fores.

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