Une vie extraordinaire, un livre de Vickie Mac Kenzie qui aura autant de retentissement que celui qu’elle a écrit sur Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (Cave in the Snow) et qui mérite d’être traduit.
La vie de Frida Bedi ne devait pas être oubliée, merci à Vickie Mac Kenzie de la sortir d’un oubli totalement immérité et qui nous montre qu’une fois encore, c’est aux femmes d’écrire leur histoire.
Nous avons déjà publié un hommage à Frida Bedi dans l’un des premiers numéros du magazine, son nom de nonne bouddhiste est Karma Tsultrim Khechog Palmo, elle figure parmi les enseignantes célébrées.
British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun
She was the first Western woman to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun—but that pioneering ordination was really just one in a life full of revolutionary acts. Freda Bedi (1911–1977) broke the rules of gender, race, and religion—in many cases before it was thought that the rules were ready to be challenged. She was at various times a force in the struggle for Indian independence, spiritual seeker, scholar, professor, journalist, author, social worker, wife, and mother of four children. She counted among her friends, colleagues, and teachers Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and many others. She was a woman of spiritual focus and compassion who was also not without contradictions. Vicki Mackenzie gives a nuanced view of Bedi and of the forces that shaped and motivated this complex and compelling figure.
