Bhikkhuni Ani Choying

Lessons from the Mountain

Thursday evening 9th May

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We will welcome Bhikkhuni Ani Choying in Bangkok for a few days. It is a special chance to meet with ordained women in Buddhism, which traditionally has been patriarchal. We have asked her to share some of her experiences and the lessons learned from the mountains of Nepal where she spent the last 15 years as a Tibetan Nun. She has a very warm and colloquial style, and is great company.

Biography

Born in Detroit in November 1943, Ani moved to the UK in her early thirties, and stayed there for 25 years. She studied fine arts at St Martins School of Arts, and gained a degree in Education, and a Masters in Education and Psychology from Easter Michegan University before specializing in teaching and counselling emotionally disturbed children, and other therapeutic psychology departments. She spent some time as an artist and a writer, publishing several children’s books.

Ani ordained in 1998 in the Samye Ling monastery in Scotland with Lama Yeshe and Akong Rinpoche in the Kagyu lineage. In 2000 she ordained withKyaje Trushik Rimpoche in the Nyingmapa tradition in Nepal, as a 39 precept nun. In 2008 she took full ordination in Taiwan. Her time in the mountains, which began around 1995, was spent mostly in Samten Dechen Choeling temple in the lieneage of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche.

Schedule

Thursday evening, 9th May

Kindly hosted by the beautiful Ariyasom Villa Boutique Hotel

6:30pm Arrive, refreshments in the Library

7:00pm Go up to the Dharma Hall for Talk and Q&A

8:15pm Finish.

Location

Ariaysom Villa is a 24 room hotel and (great) vegetarian restaurant at the end of Sukhumvit Soi 1. It is an 8 minute walk from Phrom Phong BTS, or you can take a motorcycle from the entrance to Sukhumvit Soi 1.

Further information http://www.littlebang.org/

Would love to go, but a bit too far from where I live now (Brisbane).

This was in the Bangkok Post today : <snip>

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Try a Google search for "Imparting lessons from the mountain" instead.

I wonder why the article says Buddhism is "taking a long time to catch up with the modern world?" Is that what we want? I'd have thought we want Buddhism to get back to its roots - which includes bhikkhuni.