Kung Fu Fighting Gives Nepalese Nuns a Voice

Plus, kung fu seems to give them a higher status as women in the area:

The confidence shown by these young nuns is unusual. Buddhist nuns in the Himalayas are normally seen as inferior to monks…so often nuns became basically just household servants for their families or working in the kitchens and the gardens in the monasteries.

Sometimes, it’s easy for me to forget that most eastern religions, similar to western religions, place women as second class citizens. It’s amazing how the power of learning a sacred art helps to lift women in both their own eyes and the eyes of men.

So it hardly comes as a surprise that “since nunneries have begun to offer better education and physical programmes like kung fu, the number of young women who want to become nuns has grown dramatically.”

Work it out, nuns.

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