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After closing their doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this group of kung fu nuns are back in the public eye.

Kung Fu nuns, who practise the martial art for self-defence and meditation, demonstrate their skills during the reopening of the nunnery for the first time since the COVID-19 closure at Druk ...

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 well wishers at the long-awaited reopening ...

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 ...

Kung Fu nuns demonstrate their kicking skills during the reopening of the nunnery for the first time since the COVID-19 closure at Druk Amitabha Mountain Nunnery in Kathmandu, Nepal on Monday.

A Kung Fu nun prepares to demonstrate her skills during the reopening of the nunnery for the first time since the COVID-19 closure at Druk Amitabha Mountain Nunnery in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Usually, nuns are expected to cook and clean, and are not allowed to practice any form of martial art, but Gyalwang Drukpa, a monk who ranks only slightly below the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan 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 ...

The nuns of the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery, put on the show of strength to mark the institution's reopening five years after the Covid-19 pandemic forced it to close its doors to the public.

The nuns come from Bhutan, India and Nepal and are all trained in kung fu, the Chinese martial art for self-defence and strength. Published in Dawn, January 1st, 2025 ...