The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldron
Melnick Dyer, Alison Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindrèoling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrèon (1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurmâe è...