Robina Courtin Explained

Robina Courtin
Birth Date:1944 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Melbourne, Australia
Religion:Tibetan Buddhism
School:Gelugpa
Occupation:Tibetan Buddhist nun
Website:www.robinacourtin.com

Robina Courtin (born 20 December 1944, in Melbourne, Australia[1]) is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 1996 she founded the Liberation Prison Project, which she ran until 2009.[2] [3]

Biography

Courtin was raised Catholic, and in her youth was interested in becoming a Carmelite nun.[4] In her young adulthood, she trained as a classical singer while living in London during the late 1960s.[5] She became a feminist activist and worked on behalf of prisoners' rights in the early 1970s. In 1972 she moved back to Melbourne. Courtin began studying martial arts in 1974, living in New York City and, again, back in Melbourne. In 1976, she took a Buddhist course taught by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa in Queensland.

In 1978 Courtin ordained at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala. She was editorial director of Wisdom Publications until 1987 and editor of Mandala until 2000. She left Mandala to teach and to develop Liberation Prison Project.

Robina Courtin's work has been featured in two documentary films, Christine Lundberg's On the Road Home (1998) and Amiel Courtin–Wilson's Chasing Buddha (2000), and in Vicki Mackenzie's book Why Buddhism? (2003).[6] Her nephew's film, Chasing Buddha, documents Courtin's life and her work with death row inmates in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.[7] In 2000, the film was nominated for best direction in a documentary by the Australian Film Institute.[7]

In 2001, Courtin created Chasing Buddha Pilgrimage,[8] which lead pilgrimages to Buddhist holy sites in India, Nepal, and Tibet to raise money for the Liberation Prison Project[9] an association engaged for the Tibetan cause.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gregory . Kathleen . Interview with Robina Courtin . Interviews . Ordinary Mind . October 2001 . https://web.archive.org/web/20020202223316/http://ordinarymind.net/Interviews/interview_Oct2001.htm . dead . 2 February 2002 . 26 November 2007.
  2. http://www.robinacourtin.com/biography.php Biography
  3. Web site: Ven. Robina . . 26 November 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071124142155/http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/resident/robinacourtin.asp . 24 November 2007 . dead .
  4. Web site: Saucy . Suzanne . Buddhism Behind Bars: An Interview with the Venerable Robina Courtin . Common Ground . May 2004 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070301194733/http://commongroundmag.com/2004/05/buddhismbehindbars0405.html . 2007-03-01 . 15 April 2014.
  5. Web site: Nun's voice breaks new ground in music . The Sunday Morning Herald . 29 August 2017.
  6. Web site: Ven. Robina Courtin . Chasing Buddha Pilgrimage . 26 November 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080303200423/http://chasingbuddha.org/ven_robina.htm . 3 March 2008.
  7. Alston . Macky . Filmmaking as spiritual practice and ministry . Cross Currents . 54 . 1 . 76–83 . Spring 2004 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080906195341/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2096/is_1_54/ai_n6095116 . dead . 2008-09-06 . 26 November 2007 .
  8. Web site: Chasing Buddha Pilgrimage . 2011-01-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110120165136/http://chasingbuddha.org/index.htm . 20 January 2011 .
  9. Web site: Venerable Robina Courtin . . 21 July 2008.
  10. http://www.liberationprisonproject.org/news/04.25.08LPPSupportsTibet.php Liberation Prison Project prays and protests for Tibet

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