Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Kung Fu Nuns in Nepal boost their health in
the fight for women's rights
One can sit in a Zen temple and learn meditation
for their soul, sit in church and learn to feel compassion for others, and sit
in a classroom and receive education to help each other. But how can they learn
to put meditation, compassion, or education into action? Knowing is one thing but
doing is quite another. Look at politicians, priests, bureaucrats. Most of them
are well educated and informed, many of them a well-paid, and some of them are well
disciplined. But not so many of them go out of their nestles and try to help
others with their hands.
Nuns of the Drukpa Order nunnery in the
outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, practice Kung Fu. 800 nuns, aged from
eight to eighty, undergo vigorous daily mental and physical practices starting
at 3:00 am, including meditation, bicycle riding, jogging, running stairs up
and down, and kung fu training with swords, sticks, and flags. With these ordeals,
they are spiritually, mentally, and physically trained and disciplined not only
for themselves but more importantly for others in a place where women have long
been socially and religiously discriminated against and mistreated.
Enjoy reading the article and learn how women
can rise in a severely discriminated region.
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