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

These nuns, trained in self-defence, are part of the Drukpa lineage, which promotes gender equality and empowers women ...

These are kung fu practitioners from Nepal, but they are more than meets the eye. These martial arts students are also nuns ...

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 ...

A group of kung fu nuns has displayed their martial arts skills to celebrate the long-awaited post-pandemic reopening of ...

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 ...

The nuns come from Bhutan, India and Nepal and are all trained in kung fu, the Chinese martial art for self-defence and strength.