buddhist nuns

When Ruth finds a piece of debris washed up on a beach on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest she discovers the diary of sixteen-year-old Nao, living in Tokyo, who decides that death is the only escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century.

Ming Neng, entering a retreat to test her karma as a Buddhist nun, becomes trapped between her long-held spiritual quest and forbidden passion when she succumbs to temptation with the young American doctor who saved her life.

Tells the life story of Tibetan nun Ani Pachan, discussing her idyllic childhood in Tibet, her role as a leader of the resistance after the Chinese invaded Tibet, her twenty-one-year imprisonment and torture by the Chinese, and the faith that sustained her until she was freed and finally realized her dream of meeting the Dalai Lama.

Tells the life story of Tibetan nun Ani Pachan, discussing her idyllic childhood in Tibet, her role as a leader of the resistance after the Chinese invaded Tibet, her twenty-one-year imprisonment and torture by the Chinese, and the faith that sustained her until she was freed and finally realized her dream of meeting the Dalai Lama.