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Meet the kung fu nuns of Nepal

The group of kung fu nuns, aged from 17 to 30, are members of the 1,000 year-old Drukpa lineage. (Reuters)

The group of kung fu nuns, aged from 17 to 30, are members of the 1,000 year-old Drukpa lineage, which gives nuns equal status as monks and is the only female order in the patriarchal Buddhist monastic system. (Reuters)

The group of kung fu nuns, aged from 17 to 30, are members of the 1,000 year-old Drukpa lineage, which gives nuns equal status as monks and is the only female order in the patriarchal Buddhist monastic system. (Reuters)

The nunnery opened in 2009 and it now has 300 members aged between six and 54. (Reuters)

The group of kung fu nuns, aged from 17 to 30, are members of the 1,000 year-old Drukpa lineage. (Reuters)

Nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills. (Reuters)

About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills to hundreds of cheering wellwishers at the long-awaited reopening of their nunnery in Nepal. (Reuters)

The nuns come from Bhutan, India and Nepal and are all trained in kung fu, the Chinese martial art for self-defence and strength. (Reuters)

Nuns shows off martial art skills to hundreds of cheering wellwishers at the long-awaited reopening of their nunnery in Nepal. (Reuters)

Nuns of the hill-top Druk Amitabha Monastery, put on the show of strength to mark the institution's reopening five years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to close its doors to the public. (Reuters)

The nuns come from Bhutan, India and Nepal and are all trained in kung fu, the Chinese martial art for self-defence and strength. (Reuters)

Source: Reuters

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