His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to England at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him.Īni Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. While in her mid-thirties, she traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. Pema has two children and three grandchildren. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. Ani Pema Chödrön ( Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) is an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, closely associated with the Kagyu school and the Shambhala lineage.
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