Ayya Khema ~ Go Home! ~ Theravadin Buddhism

Ayya Khema (born Ilse Kussel - 1923-1997) was the first Western
woman to become a Theravadin Buddhist nun. She has served as a
model and inspiration for women from all the Buddhist traditions
who have sought to revive the practice of women's monasticism in
modern times as well as founding women's Buddhist organisations.
Her renown as a teacher is widespread. Born in Berlin of Jewish
parents, Ayya Khema escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 with a transport
of 200 children to Glasgow. She joined her parents two years
later in Shanghai, where, with the outbreak of war, the family
was put into a Japanese POW camp, in which her father died. Ayya
Khema is noted for providing opportunities for women to practice
Buddhism, founding several centers around the world. In 1987, she
helped coordinate the first-ever Sakyadhita International
Association of Buddhist Women. She has written numerous books in
English and German, including Being Nobody, Going Nowhere and
When the Iron Eagle Flies.


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