In addition to receiving the traditional training usually reserved for male teachers, she also studied journalism, business management, homeopathy and sciences.
Now one of the most influential and vibrant women teachers, Khandro Rinpoche jetsets tirelessly between her late father's monastery and her own two nunneries in India, her American headquarters Lotus Garden in the Shenandoah Mountains in Virginia, and an ever-increasing number of Buddhist communities who are keen to benefit from her sharp acumen. The Mindrolling lineage is one of the rare Tibetan traditions that do not distinguish between male and female heirs.
Born in 1968 as the daughter of the late Kyabjé Mindrolling Trichen, she, her younger sister and her mother were the only women growing up among 400 monks at her father’s monastery in India. She is one of the very few fully trained female Rinpoches in the Tibetan tradition. Her Eminence Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche’s position in the Buddhist world is entirely unique. A Needle, Compassionately Sticking Out of a CushionĪ young Tibetan uses her unique status to empower women in the East and West
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