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Hartford Street Zen Center and Gay Buddhist Sangha invite you to:

An Evening with Venerable Robina Courtin, in Conversation
7:00 – 8:30 pm

Ven. Robina Courtin was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 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 the founder of Liberation Prison Project, which supports the Buddhist practice and studies of thousands of prisoners in the USA and Australia. Since 1987 she has taught Buddhist courses and retreats at FPMT centers
worldwide.

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.
www.vajrapani.org/

There is no fee to attend this event; however, donations are gladly accepted to help our center exist, offer practice and programs.

To pre-register for this free event, please email
gbs.hartford@gmail.com