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13 de oct. de 2023 · In this interview, Naomi discusses the life of Freda Bedi, born in 1911 and also known as Sister Palmo; activist, radical, and the first Western woman to take full ordination in Tibetan Buddhism. Naomi recounts Freda’s upbringing, education at Oxford University, controversial marriage to the communist activist BPL Bedi, flight from Nazi Germany, and arrival in India.
27 de feb. de 2017 · 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, spiritual seeker, scholar, professor, journalist, author, social worker, wife, and mother of four children.
31 de ene. de 2020 · Freda Bedi (Source: Twitter/Andrew Whitehead) This curiosity drove her to attend the weekly meetings of the Oxford Majlis, a debating society founded in 1896 at the University by Indian students. At these meetings, the Indian students gathered there would advocate for India’s freedom from the Empire. There she met fellow student Baba Pyare ...
22 de sept. de 2019 · Freda and BPL's engagement photograph, 1933. It was the biggest decision of her life, the one for which she is most remembered, but Freda Bedi didn’t tell her children that she was being ordained as a Buddhist nun. There was no family council, no private conversation, not even, it seems, a letter to announce her intention.
24 de ene. de 2020 · Freda Bedi was born Freda Houston above a quaint watchmaker’s shop in Derby, England, in 1911. Tall, blue-eyed, and with an imposing manner, she wore many hats: Oxford scholar, professor, social worker, champion of women’s rights, wife and mother of four, Gandhian revolutionary (even imprisoned for his cause), and one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun.
17 de nov. de 2021 · Abstract. In 1943, Freda Bedi – a woman who was English by birth but who made her life in South Asia – wrote a pioneering weekly column “From a Woman’s Window” for a leading nationalist-minded daily newspaper in Punjab.
Mackenzie came to see Bedi’s life as “infinitely bigger and more exciting and complex than I had imagined,” yet The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi is anything but hagiography. Bedi’s shadows get full play alongside her achievements—indeed, at times Mac-kenzie almost seems to relish exposing them.
