Ayya Khema (1923–1997)

Ven. Ayya Khema was born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1923 and escaped the Nazi regime in 1938. She was ordained a Theravadin Buddhist nun in 1979 and established a forest monastery near Sydney, Australia; a training center for nuns in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and, later, Buddha-Haus, a meditation mehr anzeigen center in the Allgu, Germany. Among her books are When the Iron Eagle Flies; Being Nobody, Going Nowhere; Who Is My Self?; and an autobiography, I Give You My Life. She passed away in 1997. weniger anzeigen