Monastics for Japan Tour 2025

The 2025 tour to Japan will bring together 11 monks from monasteries in Thailand, Hong Kong, Deer Park, USA, and France.
*Only some of the monks' profiles are posted.

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Sister Chan Linh Nghiêm

(The True Spirit of Shakyamuni)

Sister Chan Linh Nghiêm

Also known as Sister Niramisa, she was born in Thailand. After studying in the United States, she worked for many NGOs, including UNICEF. In 1998, she was ordained at Plum Village in France, and became a full nun in 2000. In 2004, she inherited the torch from Thich Nhat Hanh and became a Dharma teacher. She served as the abbot of the New Hamlet Nunnery at Plum Village in France. Since 2008, she has played an important role in establishing Plum Village in Thailand. The center has grown into one of the largest Plum Village centers in the world, and now houses young monks and nuns from various Asian countries.

Sister Chan Kinh Nghiêm

Sister Kinh Ngiem is a Senior Dharma Teacher for Thich Nhat Hanh's International Community of Buddhists in Action. She became a nun in 1998 at the age of 15. She has been Thich Nhat Hanh's personal attendant for over 15 years and has led mindfulness and meditation retreats for communities, schools, universities and corporations.

She became a nun on December 18, 2001, was ordained as a Dharma teacher in 2006, and currently resides at Deer Park Monastery, where she enjoys picking wild sage, deepening her Buddhist studies, and sharing tea and laughs with her brothers and sisters.

Visit the Plum Village website here⚫️( English )

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Sister Chan Trai Nghiem

Sister Chai Ngiem (范彋嚴) was ordained by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh in 2009. She became a bhikkhunī in 2014 and will become a Dharma teacher at Plum Village in 2020.

Born in the United States, she spent her childhood in Yokohama before moving back to Seattle, USA at the age of 13. Prior to becoming a nun at Plum Village, she was an internationally acclaimed violinist and member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. She is also a qualified yoga teacher, developing methods to understand one's own mind and cultivate harmony and healing in the body and mind through music and movement. She has led mindfulness retreats in North and South America and Asia, and has published many of Thich Nhat Hanh's books in Japanese.

Visit the Plum Village website here⚫️(English)

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