This nunnery has an empowering claim to fame—it’s the only one in Nepal where the nuns practice martial arts. The nuns of the Buddhist Drukpa Order train three hours a day, and they break bricks with their bare hands. Heroes in the Himalayas, these strong women delivered supplies to hardtoreach villages after an earthquake struck Kathmandu in 2015. The kung fu nuns have also taught selfdefense classes for women and biked 14,000 miles to protest the human trafficking of women and girls.

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