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Mackenzie, Vicki.
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Bedi, Freda, 1911-1977.
Buddhist women -- Biography.
Buddhist nuns -- Biography.
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Mackenzie, Vicki.
Bedi, Freda, 1911-1977.
Buddhist women -- Biography.
Buddhist nuns -- Biography.
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The revolutionary life of Freda Bedi : British feminist, Indian nationalist, Buddhist nun / Vicki MacKenzie, foreword by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo.
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Mackenzie, Vicki.
Shambhala Publications, 2017.
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294
.3923092
B412m
Subjects
Bedi, Freda, 1911-1977.
Buddhist women -- Biography.
Buddhist nuns -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781611804256 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Freda Bedi : British feminist, Indian nationalist, Buddhist nun
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xvi, 186 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"A biography of Freda Bedi, the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism, and one of the most remarkable and iconoclastic figures in Buddhism's movement to the West. Born in England, educated at Oxford, and married to a Sikh, she became a major force both in shaping modern day Buddhism and Indian history. In her life she had many roles--political freedom fighter, spiritual seeker, scholar, professor, journalist, author, social worker, wife, and mother of four children (one of whom is a well-known actor). Vicki MacKenzie's lively biography captures what a trailblazer Bedi was in both the secular and spiritual realms. She studied meditation with Burmese meditation masters. She was the first English woman to be accepted by Gandhi into his elite band of Satyagrahi, delivering rousing speeches to thousands of Indians urging them to revolt, and then was imprisoned for subversion. She was asked by Nehru to help resettle Tibetan refugees, and she aided the Dalai Lama when he went into exile. Bedi established a school for young Tibetan lamas and also a nunnery to provide nuns equal religious opportunities. She became the highest-ranking Tibetan Buddhist nun in India. Biographer Vicki Mackenzie traced Bedi's footsteps and conducted many in-depth interviews with those who knew her, including friends, family, government officials, lamas, and nuns. She also drew heavily from Bedi's own writings, diaries, and recordings"--Provided by publisher.
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