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![]() ![]() She counted among her friends, colleagues, and teachers Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and many others. ![]() She was at various times a force in the struggle for Indian independence, spiritual seeker, scholar, professor, journalist, author, social worker, wife, and mother of four children. Freda Bedi 19111977 broke the rules of gender, race, and religionin many cases before it was thought that the rules were ready to be challenged. A fascinating biography of Freda Bedi, an English woman who broke all the rules of gender, race, and religious background to become both a revolutionary in the fight for Indian independence and then a Buddhist icon.She was the first Western woman to become a Tibetan Buddhist nunbut that pioneering ordination was really just one in a life full of revolutionary acts. ![]()
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