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Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Patricia Zenn) was born on 23 September, 1944 in Bangladesh, is an A 21st-century american women writer. Discover Karma Lekshe Tsomo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

Popular As Patricia Zenn
Occupation Scholar and social activist
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 23 September, 1944
Birthday 23 September
Birthplace N/A
Nationality Bangladesh

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1944

Karma Lekshe Tsomo (born 23 September 1944) is a Buddhist nun, scholar and social activist.

She is a professor at the University of San Diego, where she teaches Buddhism, World Religions, and Dying, Death, and Social Justice.

She is co-founder of the Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women and the founding director of the Jamyang Foundation, which supports the education of women and girls in the Himalayan region, the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, and elsewhere.

Karma Lekshe Tsomo's was born in Delaware in 1944 under her given name, Patricia Zenn.

She was raised in Malibu California.

Her birth surname, Zenn comes from a misspelling on a relative's passport of the German last name Zinn.

This error led to a childhood interest in Zen Buddhism and her career as a Buddhist scholar and nun.

1977

She took novice precepts as a Buddhist nun in France in 1977 and full ordination in Korea in 1982.

In 1977, Patricia Zenn became a novice nun in France, ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition by the Sixteenth Gyalua Karmapa.

At this time, she was given the name Karma Lekshe Tsomo.

Later that year, she moved to Dharamshula, India and took classes under the Dalai Lama.

1982

In 1982, she took full ordination in Korea.

1985

In 1985 Karma Lekshe Tsomo founded the Jamyang Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to improve educational opportunities for women and girls, and currently supports thirteen monastic study programmes in the Himalayan region of India and in Bangladesh.

1987

At a gathering at Bodhgaya in 1987 she became one of the founding members of Sakydhita (Daughters of the Buddha), which campaigns for gender equality in Buddhism.

She is the director of La'i Peace Center in Waialua, Hawai'i, a resource for peace education, Buddhist studies, and community service under the auspices of Sakyadhita Hawai'i.

2000

Karma Lekshe Tsomo was a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of San Diego, where she taught from 2000 to 2022, and the Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 2023.

After fifteen years studying Buddhism in Dharamsala, she did her postgraduate work at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, earning a PhD in Comparative Philosophy in 2000.

Her research has primarily concerned women in Buddhism, death and dying, and Buddhist philosophy and ethics.