Daughters of Wisdom

I saw this wonderful movie recently about Buddhist nuns in Nangchen, a region in the isolated Kham area of Tibet. The women were praying, taking care of their Yaks and living a contented life, away from the misery and suffering of Sansara. The sounds of laughter and echoes of women's voices in the monastery were lovely.

For centuries, the women of rural Tibet have been relegated to subservient roles. Regarded as capable of little more than churning butter, bearing children and saying prayers, they have lived servile lives without access to education or the time to practice Buddhism to the same degree as men. In Daughters of Wisdom, the filmmaker creates a vivid, intimate portrait of the lives of these women, and witnesses their culture, a culture on the verge of positive social change realized through education and religious cultivation.

This from here.