About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art ...

After closing their doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this group of kung fu nuns are back in the public eye.

The nuns of the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery, put on the show of strength to mark the institution’s reopening five years ...

Clad in umber robes, their heads shorn, Jigme Yeshe Lhamo, Jigme Tontam Wangmo and Jigme Deepam squat in a kung fu stance.

About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art ...

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At Nepal's Druk Amitabha Monastery, kung fu nuns performed martial arts displays to celebrate the reopening of their nunnery after a five-year closure. These nuns, embodying the Drukpa lineage's ...

The group of kung fu nuns, aged from 17 to 30, are members of the 1,000 year-old Drukpa lineage, which gives nuns equal status as monks and is the only female order in the patriarchal Buddhist ...

KATHMANDU – 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 ...

Backstage at a convent in Nepal, several nuns are stretching and chatting. They're preparing to put on a kung fu display at the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery, five years after it closed its ...