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Gelongma Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in , in New York City. She attended Miss Porter&#;s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.

She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.

While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years.

She became a novice nun in while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to England at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him.

Ani Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 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 until his death in At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the f