Australian Buddhist nun

Robina Courtin (born 20 December 1944, in Melbourne, Australia) 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.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Books edited
• 3 Further reading
  • 3.1 Books
  • 3.2 Periodicals
  • 3.3 Audio/Video
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Courtin was raised Catholic, and in her youth was interested in becoming a Carmelite nun.In her young adulthood, she trained as a cl*ical singer while living in London during the late 1960s.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 Tu*a 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 do*entary 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). Her nephew's film, Chasing Buddha, do*ents Courtin's life and her work with death row inmates in the Kentucky State Penitentiary. In 2000, the film was nominated for best direction in a do*entary by the Australian Film Ins*ute.

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

Books edited

• Zopa, Thubten (2007). Courtin, Robina; Finnegan, Diana; Bernard, Michelle (eds.). Dear Lama Zopa: Radical Solutions for Transforming Problems into Happiness. Wisdom Publications. ISBN:978-0-86171-289-2.
• McDonald, Kathleen (2006). Courtin, Robina (ed.). How to Meditate: A Practical Guide. Wisdom Publications. ISBN:0-86171-341-9.
• Yeshe, Lama Thubten (2003). Courtin, Robina (ed.). Becoming the Comp*ion Buddha: Tantric Mahamudra for Everyday Life. Wisdom Publications. ISBN:0-86171-343-5.
• Yeshe, Lama Thubten (1998). Courtin, Robina; Cameron, Alisa (eds.). The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa. Wisdom Publications. ISBN:0-86171-136-X.
• Rinpoche, Lama Zopa (1993). Courtin, Robina; Cameron, Alisa (eds.). Transforming Problems into Happiness. Wisdom Publications. ISBN:0-86171-038-X.

Further reading

Books

• Dondrub, Thubten (2001). Spiritual Friends: Meditations by Monks and Nuns of the International Mahayana Ins*ute. Wisdom Publications. ISBN:0-86171-325-7.
• MacKenzie, Vicki (2003). Why Buddhism?: Westerners in Search of Wisdom. Element Books. ISBN:0-00-714228-5.

Periodicals

• Morris, Linda (28 April 2005). "A lifeline over the prison walls of the mind". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
• Walker, Vanessa (15 November 2000). "Robina and the hoods". The Australian.

Audio/Video

• Rachael Kohn, Geoff Wood (13 July 2003). "Chasing Robina". The Spirit of Things. Season July 2003. Radio Nationalhttp://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s897932.htm. {{cite episode}}: |transcript-url= missing *le (help)
• Stephen Crittenden, David Rutledge (4 May 2005). "Venerable Robina Courtin". The Religion Report. Season Wednesday 4 May 2005. Radio Nationalhttp://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s1365062.htm. {{cite episode}}: |transcript-url= missing *le (help)
• Robina Courtin (9 September 2007). Comp* - Key to Freedom (Television production/DVD). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 26 November 2007. Comp* follows Robina Courtin as she visits inmates at Long Bay and Junee prisons in NSW..
• Vince Horn, Ryan Oelke (21 September 2008). "Episode 89: Venerable Robina Courtin: Bodhisattva CEO". Buddhist Geeks (Podcast). Buddhist Geeks. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
• Robina Courtin (3 October 2008). Be Your Own Therapist (Web). Google Tech Talks. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
• Robina Courtin (August 2016). "Unraveling Our Emotions." Dharma Talk for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.
• Richard Fidler (7 September 2017). "Conversations: Why a Buddhist nun found her way to death row". ABC Australia (Podcast). ABC Australia.

References

External links

• Venerable Robina Courtin