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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...
Fenster is survived by his wife Kerin, his two children, his mother and his sister...