Kelsang Namdrol Oral History

Title

Kelsang Namdrol Oral History

Subject

Kalpa Bhadra Kadampa Buddhist Center (Wichita, Kan.)
Meditation
Buddhism -- Kansas
Buddhism --Tibet
New religious movements
Ordination

Description

Oral history interview with Kelsang Namdrol, an ordained nun in the New Kadampa Tradition and director of the Kalpa Bhadra Kadampa Buddhist Center in Wichita, Kansas. This interview was conducted on June 19, 2015, at Kalpa Bhadra in Wichita, Kansas. This interview includes discussion of Namdrol’s history with the New Kadampa Tradition, her own story of becoming Buddhist and ordination, her thoughts on meditation, and her interaction in the interfaith community. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas Project as part of a summer fieldwork internship funded by the Friends of the Department of Religious Studies.

Source

Religion in Kansas Project

Publisher

Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas

Date

2015-06-19

Rights

Oral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the Univers
All oral histories in the Religion in Kansas Project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Format

docx

Language

en_us

Type

Recording, oral
Transcript

Identifier

RKsP_Namdrol_Kelsang_2015-06-19.mp3
RKsP_Namdrol_Kelsang_2015-06-19_Transcript.docx

Original Format

mp3

Duration

0:55:35

Interviewer

Bowman, Nathan

Interviewee

Namdrol, Kelsang

Location

Wichita (Kan.)

Citation

“Kelsang Namdrol Oral History,” Religion in Kansas Project, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ksreligion.omeka.net/items/show/2266.