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| Ven.
Robina Courtin |
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Ven. Robina Courtin was ordained as
a Tibetan Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery
in 1978. She has worked full time since
then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama
Zopa Rinpoche's Foundation for the Preservation
of the Mahayana Tradition, first as
editorial director of Wisdom Publications
and then as editor of the FPMT magazine,
Mandala. She is the founder of Liberation
Prison Project, which supports the Buddhist
practice and studies of thousands of
prisoners in the USA and Australia.
Since 1987 she has taught Buddhist courses
and retreats at FPMT centers worldwide. |
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 Born
in Australia, she studied classical
singing in Melbourne until her early
twenties. In London she was involved
with the radical left and feminism and
then, in her quest for a spiritual path,
studied martial arts. |
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award-winning film, Chasing Buddha,
made by her nephew Amiel Courtin-Wilson,
documents her life and includes her
work at Kentucky State Prison. She is
one of the subjects of Vicki Mackenzie's
Why Buddhism?, and a film by
Christine Lundberg, On the Road
Home. |
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