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Title: The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi
Subtitle: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun
Author: Vicki Mackenzie
Narrator: Vicki Mackenzie, Maggie Ollerenshaw
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-25-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures
Publisher's Summary:
A fascinating biography of Freda Bedi, an English woman who broke all the rules of gender, race, and religious background to become both a revolutionary in the fight for Indian independence and then a Buddhist icon.
She was the first Western woman to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun - but that pioneering ordination was really just one in a life full of revolutionary acts. Freda Bedi (1911-1977) broke the rules of gender, race, and religion - in many cases before it was thought that the rules were ready to be challenged. She was at various times a force in the struggle for Indian independence, a spiritual seeker, a scholar, a professor, a journalist, an author, a social worker, a wife, and mother of four children. She counted among her friends, colleagues, and teachers Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and many others. She was a woman of spiritual focus and compassion who was also not without contradictions. Vicki Mackenzie gives a nuanced view of Bedi and of the forces that shaped and motivated this complex and compelling figure.
Cover image courtesy of Bedi Family Archives
