DHARAMSALA, India -- Tenzin Palmo seems an unlikely figure to challenge the patriarchal order of Tibetan Buddhism.
Born Diane Perry in 1943 and raised in London as the daughter of a fishmonger, she showed an early interest in Buddhism and traveled to India at the age of 20. "As soon as I read about it, I knew that I had always been Buddhist," she told Nikkei Asia.
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