Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Ladakh and Zanskar Photo Gallery
TAKING CARE
January-March 2013
In June-July 2012, FPMT student Dr. Mary Wellhoner, an OB-GYN based in Reno, Nevada, U.S., and Marlies Bosch founder of the Dutch Foundation for Ladakhi Nuns visited Ladakh and Zanskar in India to distribute copies of the woman’s health book Healthy Body, Healthy Mind and offer health workshops at nunneries in the region. (See the print edition of Mandala January-March 2013 for the complete story.) They also spent time at the nunnery of Gephel Shadrubling, which you can read about in Mary and Marlies’ story, “A New Generation of Ladakhi Nuns.” (To enlarge photos, click on image.)
Tags: ladakh, ordained sangha, photo gallery, women, zanskar Mary Wellhoner and nuns from Ladakh Nuns Association look at Health Body, Healthy Mind books still in shipping packaging. The books arrived via truck from Bodhgaya, India. Ladakh Nuns Association, Leh, Ladakh, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Healthy Body, Healthy Mind book distribution and workshop at Central Institute for Buddhist Studies, Leh, Ladakh, India, June 2012. Photo by Mary Wellhoner. |
 Healthy Body, Healthy Mind book distribution and workshop at Central Institute for Buddhist Studies, Leh, Ladakh, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Hemoglobin testing at Central Institute for Buddhist Studies, Leh, Ladakh, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Marlies Bosch, Vens. Saldon, Dechen and Namdrol, and Mary Wellhoner, Gephel Shadrupling Nunnery, Ladakh, India, July 2012 |
 Nuns at Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery, Laddakh, India, July 2012. |
 First nuns in Ladakh to learn sand painting, Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery, Ladakh, India, July 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Young nuns with young volunteers at Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery, Ladakh, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Nun receiving hemoglobin test, Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery, Ladakh, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Young nuns at Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery, Ladakh, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Young nuns at Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery, Ladakh, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Young nun at Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery, Ladakh, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Nuns at Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery, Laddakh, India, July 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Building being constructed for planned institute of higher learning for nuns, Laddakh, India, July 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Members of Healthy Body, Healthy Mind book distribution team in Zanskar, India, June 2012: (from left) Zia Mars, Vens. Namdrol and Saldon, and Sarah Dover. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Hemoglobin testing at small nunnery in Zanskar, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Healthy Body, Healthy Mind book distribution in Zanskar, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Healthy Body, Healthy Mind book distribution in Zanskar, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
 Healthy Body, Healthy Mind book distribution in Zanskar, India, June 2012. Photo by Marlies Bosch. |
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