A guided tour of Shugsep Nunnery

Join a delightful guided tour around Shugsep Nunnery in northern India, home to about 85 Tibetan Buddhist nuns. It is one of the two nunneries built and entirely supported by the Tibetan Nuns Project. A Nyingma nunnery, Shugsep traces its rituals and practice to some of the most illustrious female practitioners in Tibetan history. In the previous century, Shugsep was home to one of the most famous teachers of her time, Shugsep Jetsunma. Following the Cultural Revolution in 1959, the nuns of Shugsep Nunnery in Tibet were forced to leave and the originally nunnery was completely destroyed. Although the nunnery was partially rebuilt in the 1980s by the nuns themselves, the nuns faced frequent harassment by Chinese authorities.

The majority of the nuns studying in Shugsep Nunnery near Dharamsala, India and shown here in this video come from the original Shugsep. Here the nuns have the opportunity to participate in a nine-year academic program of Buddhist philosophy, debate, Tibetan language and English.

Learn how you can support the nuns of Shugsep here: https://tnp.org/youcanhelp/donate/

Video courtesy of Evan Kezsbom, with thanks also to Jalene Szuba and Dustin Kujawski.