Ven Robina Courtin in Adelaide - Nov 5 - 11

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Biography

Venerable Robina teaching in Adelaide 1998

Venerable Robina Courtin has been a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition for thirty years. She is the Director of the Liberation Prison Project, based in the USA and Australia, which takes care of the spiritual needs of more than 3,500 prisoners in 500 institutions. Many of these are on death row or have life sentences and have been involved in gangs on the streets an in prison.

Ven. Robina was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up as a Catholic. She studied classical singing until her early twenties. She went to London in 1967, where she lived for four years. She became actively involved in the radical left, working mainly with the London-based support group for black and Chicano prisoners. In the early 70s she became a feminist and returned to Melbourne in 1972 to work with other radical feminists.

In her quest for a spiritual path, Robina began studying matial arts in 1974 and moved to New York where she studied karate. She continued her studies in Melbourne until 1976, when she attended a Tibetan Buddhist course in Queensland given by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

In November 1977 Ven. Robina went to Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she was ordained. Since then, she has lived as a Buddhist nun, traveling, teaching and bringing the Dharma to people both in and out of prison.

Ven. Robina was the editorial director of Wisdom Publications until 1987, before moving to the FPMT’s international journal, ‘mandala’, as editor.

At the end of 2000 she resigned to spend more time teaching at Buddhist centres around the world and to devote her time and energy to the Liberation Prison Project.

Every year, ven. Robina leads the Chasing Buddha Pilgrimage, visiting sacred sites in India, Nepal and Tibet as a fundraising benefit for the Liberation Prison Project.

She is an extraordinary woman with boundless energy and charisma and her style of teaching the Dharma is sparklingly clear, direct and compassionate.

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Liberation Prison Project is a Tibetan Buddhist organization and social services project affiliated with the FPMT. Active in the U.S., Australia, Spain, Mexico, and Mongolia it offers spiritual advice and teachings, as well as books and materials, to people in prison interested in exploring, studying and practicing Buddhism.

Download MP3 Teachings - audio files of Ven Robina to download at http://www.lamrim.org/

Ven Robina's Profile at www.fpmt.org

Interview with Venerable Robina by Sophie Cunningham