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.
"We do kung fu to keep ourselves mentally and physically fit, and our aim is to promote women's empowerment and gender ...
About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills to hundreds of ...
These are kung fu practitioners from Nepal, but they are more than meets the eye. These martial arts students are also nuns ...
KATHMANDU — About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills to hundreds of cheering wellwishers at the long ...
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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 ...
The nuns of the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery put on the show of strength to mark the institution’s reopening five years after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions closed its doors to the public. The ...