Susan Sage Heinzelman, Director
116 Inner Campus Dr Stop A4900, GEB 4.200C, Austin Texas 78712 • 512-471-5765
To the Nunnery and Beyond: Becoming a ‘Tibetan’ Buddhist Nun in Nepal, a talk by Dr. Jessamine Dana
Wed, November 9, 2011 • 12:00 PM • Meyerson Conference Room, WCH 4.118
Dr. Jessamine Dana
Visiting Scholar at the Department of Religious Studies
and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, UT Austin
How does it look and feel to be a religious person in a woman's body? How and why is it di erent to be a Nepalese, Tibetan Buddhist nun today than it was before the political, economic, and social upheavals in Nepal that began in 1990? This talks
explains how becoming a nun has been and still is a process that occurs throughout a woman's life and considers how recent changes in Nepal have a ected the ways women become and live as nuns
