Nun's provide many services to communities all over the Himalaya and Tibet.
The nunnery we visited today is famous because it houses a below-ground cave where a Dalai Lama from the 7th century went to meditate for three years about where to build a place of worship.
Today, only 20 nuns live here and they run a tea house, a gift shop with blessed gifts, and they create and roll scriptures that are housed inside many official Tibetan prayer wheels and figures of Buddha.
The nuns I met and spoke with were full of energy and good humor. Click below for a real treat.
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