![]() ![]() ![]() Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to Scotland at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. ![]() Pema has two children and three grandchildren. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. ![]()
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