Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen
5. Donning the Robes
Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen
Mitra Härkönen [+]
University of Helsinki
Mitra Härkönen is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Description
Despite the obstacles, my nun informants finally ended up becoming nuns. In general, there are two stages in the process: the act of leaving home in the process of renunciation and the act of receiving ordination. In the chapter, these two stages are discussed in the light of the interviews.