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Freda Bedi

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Freda Bedi (sometimes spelled Frida Bedi, also named Sister Palmo, or Gelongma Karma Kechog Palmo) (5 February 1911 – 26 March 1977) was a British woman who was the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism, which occurred in 1972. [1]

57 relations: Akong Rinpoche, Anagarika Govinda, Arya Maitreya Mandala, Bhikkhuni, Buddhism, Chögyam Trungpa, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Christopher Hills, Dalhousie, India, Delhi, Derby, Derby College, Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, Gelek Rimpoche, Guru Nanak, India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Kabir Bedi, Kagyu, Kangra Valley, Karma Kagyu, Karma Thinley Rinpoche, Khatri, Library of Congress, Mahasi Sayadaw, Mahatma Gandhi, Mick Brown (journalist), Mid Day, Ministry of External Affairs (India), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Nishat Bagh, Oxford University Press, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Rumtek Monastery, Satyagraha, Sheikh Abdullah, Sheila Meiring Fugard, Sikh, Social work, Sorbonne, Srinagar, St Hugh's College, Oxford, Tenzin Palmo, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Nuns Project, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Vicki Mackenzie, Vipassanā, ..., Voltaire, Wangchuk Dorje, 9th Karmapa Lama, World War I, Yangon, Yeshe Losal, Young Lamas Home School, 14th Dalai Lama. Expand index (7 more) »

Akong Rinpoche

Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche (25 December 1939 – 8 October 2013) was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and a founder of the Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland.

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Anagarika Govinda

Anagarika Govinda (born Ernst Lothar Hoffmann, 17 May 1898 – 14 January 1985) was the founder of the order of the Arya Maitreya Mandala and an expositor of Tibetan Buddhism, Abhidharma, and Buddhist meditation as well as other aspects of Buddhism.

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Arya Maitreya Mandala

Arya Maitreya Mandala is a tantric and Buddhist order founded 1933 by Lama Anagarika Govinda.

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Bhikkhuni

A bhikkhunī (Pali) or bhikṣuṇī (Sanskrit) is a fully ordained female monastic in Buddhism.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.

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Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche (छोकी निमा रिम्पोचे, alternatively in English spelled: Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche) (b. 1951) is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and meditation master.

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Christopher Hills

Christopher Hills (April 9, 1926 – January 31, 1997) was an English-born author, philosopher, and scientist, popularly described as the "Father of Spirulina" for popularizing spirulina cyanobacteria as a food supplement.

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Dalhousie, India

Dalhousie is a hill station in Chamba district, in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Derby College

Derby College is a further education centre with sites located within Derbyshire (Derby and South East Derbyshire – Ilkeston, Morley & Heanor), England and the surrounding area.

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Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition

The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) was founded in 1975 by Lamas Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, who began teaching Buddhism to Western students in Nepal.

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Gelek Rimpoche

Kyabje Nawang Gehlek Rimpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist lama who was born in Lhasa, Tibet on 26 October 1939.

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Guru Nanak

Guru Nanak (IAST: Gurū Nānak) (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539) was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.

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Kabir Bedi

Kabir Bedi (born 16 January 1946) is an Indian television and film actor.

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Kagyu

The Kagyu, Kagyü, or Kagyud school, also known as the "Oral Lineage" or Whispered Transmission school, is today regarded as one of six main schools (chos lugs) of Himalayan or Tibetan Buddhism.

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Kangra Valley

Kangra Valley is situated in the Western Himalayas.

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Karma Kagyu

Karma Kagyu, or Kamtsang Kagyu, is probably the 2nd largest and certainly the most widely practiced lineage within the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Karma Thinley Rinpoche

Karma Thinley Rinpoche, (b. 1931) is an important master of the Kagyu Mahamudra, Sakya Lamdré and Chod traditions of Tibetan Buddhism active in the west.

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Khatri

Khatri is a caste from the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Mahasi Sayadaw

Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana (မဟာစည်ဆရာတော် ဦးသောဘန,; 29 July 1904 – 14 August 1982) was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana (Insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Mick Brown (journalist)

Mick Brown (born 1950 in London) is a journalist who has written for several British newspapers, including The Guardian and The Sunday Times and for international publications.

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Mid Day

Mid Day (stylised as mid-day) is a morning daily Indian compact newspaper.

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Ministry of External Affairs (India)

The Ministry of External Affairs of India (abbreviated as MEA), also known as the Foreign Ministry, is the government agency responsible for the conduct of foreign relations of India.

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is an Indian government ministry charged with health policy in India.

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Nishat Bagh

Nishat Bagh is a terraced Mughal garden built on the eastern side of the Dal Lake, close to Srinagar in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa

The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (August 14, 1924 – November 5, 1981) (Wylie Rang 'byung rig pa'i rdo rje) was spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Rumtek Monastery

Rumtek Monastery, also called the Dharmachakra Centre, is a gompa located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Gangtok.

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Satyagraha

Satyagraha सत्याग्रह; satya: "truth", graha: "insistence" or "holding firmly to") or holding onto truth or truth force – is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. The term satyagraha was coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948). He deployed satyagraha in the Indian independence movement and also during his earlier struggles in South Africa for Indian rights. Satyagraha theory influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s and James Bevel's campaigns during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, and many other social justice and similar movements. Someone who practices satyagraha is a satyagrahi.

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Sheikh Abdullah

Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah (5 December 1905 – 8 September 1982) was a Kashmiri politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost Indian state.

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Sheila Meiring Fugard

Sheila Meiring Fugard (born 1932) was born in England.

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Sikh

A Sikh (ਸਿੱਖ) is a person associated with Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.

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Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

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Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which was the historical house of the former University of Paris.

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Srinagar

Srinagar is the largest city and the summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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St Hugh's College, Oxford

St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

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Tenzin Palmo

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (born 1943) is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche (1946 Thami, Nepal as Dawa Chötar) is a Nepali lama from Khumbu, the entryway to Mount Everest.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is the form of Buddhist doctrine and institutions named after the lands of Tibet, but also found in the regions surrounding the Himalayas and much of Central Asia.

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Tibetan Nuns Project

The Tibetan Nuns Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and supporting female Buddhist monastics in India from all Tibetan Buddhist lineages.

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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920 - February 13, 1996) (टुल्कु उर्ग्येन् रिन्पोचे) was a Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal.

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Vicki Mackenzie

Vicki Mackenzie (born 1947), an author and journalist, was born in England and spent much of her early life in Australia.

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Vipassanā

Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यन) in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the true nature of reality.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Wangchuk Dorje, 9th Karmapa Lama

Wangchuk Dorje (1556–1603) was the ninth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Yangon

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်မြို့, MLCTS rankun mrui,; formerly known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") was the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

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Yeshe Losal

Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche is a lama in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and abbot of the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, Scotland, the first and largest of its kind in the West.

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Young Lamas Home School

The Young Lamas Home School was a school established by the 14th Dalai Lama and Freda Bedi in 1960.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Bedi

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