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Australian Buddhist nun

Robina Courtin (born 20 December 1944, in Melbourne, Australia^[1]) is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan BuddhistGelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

In 1996 she founded the Liberation Prison Project, which she ran until 2009.^[2][3]

Biography

Courtin was raised Catholic, and in her youth was interested in becoming a Carmelitenun.^[4] In her young adulthood, she trained as a classical singer while living in London during the late 1960s.^[5] She became a feminist activist and worked on behalf of prisoners' rights in the early 1970s.

In 1972 she moved back to Melbourne.

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Courtin began studying martial arts in 1974, living in New York City and, again, back in Melbourne. In 1976, she took a Buddhist course taught by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa in Queensland.

In 1978 Courtin ordained at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala.

She was editorial director of Wisdo