Ven Robina Courtin returns 2007

Ven. Robina Courtin was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in February 1978.

She has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition,first as editorial director of Wisdom Publications and then as editor of the FPMT magazine, Mandala. She is now director of Liberation Prison Project, which supports the Buddhist practice studies of thousands of prisoners in the USA, Australia, England, Spain and Mexico.

Since 1987 she has taught Buddhist courses and retreats at FPMT centres worldwide, participated in international seminars and given numerous public talks.

Born in Australia, she studied classical singing in Melbourne until her early twenties.

In London she was involved with the radical left and feminism and then,
in her quest for a spiritual path, studied martial arts.

An award-winning film, Chasing Buddha, made by her nephew Amiel Courtin-Wilson, documents her life and includes her work at Kentucky State Prison. She is one of the subjects of Vicki Mackenzie's Why Buddhism?, and a film by Christine Lundberg, "On the Road Home."