Ven. Ayya Khema had a fascinating life. She was born into a Jewish family in the 1920s and they escaped in 1938. She later became a nun in the Theravada tradition and established a monastery in Australia, a training center for nuns in Sri Lanka, and a meditation center in Germany. She passed away in 1997.
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