The Tibetan Nun Mingyur PeldrönBorn to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindrling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrn (16991769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurm sel, to consider