Word: kerin
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According to Melissa R. Kerin, a second-year Divinity School student who helped organize the nuns' tour, the fact that the nuns are learning to make the mandalas is a sign of social change...
Reluctant to phrase the changes in Western feminist terms of release from sexual discrimination, however, Kerin said the reasons why nuns have not created sand mandalas in the past are "very complex...
According to Kerin, nuns have been barred from creating sand mandalas for reasons ranging from educational limitations to the fact that Tibetan men and women had "different spheres...
...past] nunneries weren't oriented toward studying the scripture, but more toward practice [of religion]...[but] it was never actually written in scriptures that [nuns] can't make sand mandalas," Kerin said...
Life in exile, which has uprooted traditional sex roles, increased exposure to Western Buddhists, and the Dalai Lama's support has opened a "space of possibility," Kerin said. The nuns created their first sand mandala...