Blades flashing in the morning sun, the young women twirl, cartwheel and then kick in unison, finishing their graceful movements in a centuries old kung fu fighting stance.

The Drukpa Kung Fu Nuns taught a five-day self-defense workshop for girls and young women in India's Ladakh region in August.

In February 2024, recruitment began to form a women's kung fu troupe, to specialize in performing and promoting Emei martial arts. Within two months, Ling was leading a team that was trying to find ...

In Nepal, nuns are practicing kung fu in order to achieve better physical and mental health, as well as to strengthen their community. In 2008, the spiritual leader of the Drukpa lineage of Himalayan ...

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LADAKH, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As dawn breaks, the sun edges over the expansive jagged mountains of Ladakh - a remote Buddhist ex-kingdom in the Indian Himalayas bordering Tibet - to ...

The pilot script of “Kung Fu” was written more than a year ago, but its premiere, coming a month after six Asian women died in Atlanta-area spa shootings, couldn’t be more timely, says star ...

The Emei Kung Fu Girls Troupe was established during the fourth Emei Martial Arts Inheritance Conference, held in the Mount Emei Scenic Area, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on April 29, 2024.

A Buddhist nunnery in Nepal defys conservative norms to teach their nuns kung fu, aiding their physical and mental health and their fight for women’s rights.

The pilot script of “Kung Fu” was written more than a year ago, but its premiere, coming a month after six Asian women died in an Atlanta mass shooting, couldn’t be more timely, says star ...