About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art ...

The nuns of the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery, put on the show of strength to mark the institution’s reopening five years ...

Clad in umber robes, their heads shorn, Jigme Yeshe Lhamo, Jigme Tontam Wangmo and Jigme Deepam squat in a kung fu stance.

Kung fu nuns at Nepal's Amitabha Drukpa Nunnery demonstrate their martial arts skills. It is the only Buddhist monastery in its lineage where women practice martial arts, attracting those who advocate ...

These nuns, trained in self-defence, are part of the Drukpa lineage, which promotes gender equality and empowers women ...

The group of kung fu nuns, aged from 17 to 30, are members of the 1,000 year-old Drukpa lineage, which gives nuns equal ...

A group of kung fu nuns has displayed their martial arts skills to celebrate the long-awaited post-pandemic reopening of ...

At Nepal's Druk Amitabha Monastery, kung fu nuns performed martial arts displays to celebrate the reopening of their nunnery after a five-year closure. These nuns, embodying the Drukpa lineage's ...

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About a dozen nuns, from the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery, performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding ...

The group of kung fu nuns, aged from 17 to 30, are members of the 1,000 year-old Drukpa lineage, which gives nuns equal status as monks and is the only female order in the patriarchal Buddhist ...

The group of kung fu nuns, aged from 17 to 30, are members of the 1,000 year-old Drukpa lineage, which gives nuns equal status as monks and is the only female order in the patriarchal Buddhist ...