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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 ...

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 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.

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